ROAR Volume 8

<p>Paradise can be the stark natural beauty of our own world; it can be the connections we have with the people we love; it can be a moment in time. Paradise can be a place we're seeking or a place that we didn't realize we already had until it started to slip away. It can have a dark side. Even shining science-fiction utopias can come with a price.</p><p>Read this book and take a journey through eighteen different visions of paradise—beginning with the personal and natural traveling through the societal and technological and all the way out to the supernal and divine. A great book can heal you when you're hurting give you an escape that you desperately need or even rekindle a lost spark of hope.</p><p>Let this book be a small piece of paradise for you.</p><p> </p><p>Contents:</p><p>Northern Delights by Madison Keller</p><p>Flying Back to Paradise by Jelliqal Belle</p><p>Personal History by Tim Susman</p><p>The Lion Sleeps by Frances Pauli</p><p>Tucked Away by E. S. Lapso</p><p>When Pigs Fly by Amy Fontaine</p><p>Funnel Dresses by Priya Sridhar</p><p>A Christmas Tale For The Disenchanted by Mark Blickley</p><p>Bite The Apple by Christopher Shaffer</p><p>Lonesome Peak by John Giezentanner</p><p>When the Milk Men Come by Searska Greyraven</p><p>Nor’Killik by Matt Doyle</p><p>We Are One by Thurston Howl</p><p>Lucid by Nicholas Hardin</p><p>Castle Phoenix by Bill Kieffer</p><p>Kypris’ Kiss by Slip Wolf</p><p>Behesht by Dwale</p><p>Hope For the Harbingers by Allison Thai</p><p> </p><p>Cover art by Teagan Edited by Mary E. Lowd</p>