Knotted Road Press: 222 books

Mama Chen thinks she's lucky to have found Xi Bao, wandering alone through the empty streets during Ghost month. Now she has the most dutiful daughter, who waits on her every wish. Or is there more to Xi Bao then there seems? This short story is set in Beijing, during the Ming dynasty, around 1500 A.D.

As a child, Jolene learns she has a gift: She can see a person's fate. It appears as a golden charm around their neck. She doesn't want her gift. She wants a normal life—a job, a husband, and kids. Now, after finding the perfect man, Jolene can't get pregnant. She makes a deal with...

The shadows are here... Five dynamic stories from the clans, telling the beginning of the shadows and beyond. Stories included: "The Third Raven" "Shadows' Door" "Prophesy in Shadows" "The Tiger's Shadow" "The Viper in Tulum" Plus, the first chapter from the novel, "The Guardian Hound."

Rabbit joins with much of his village to witness the disaster thieves wrought on the master statue maker. However, the bumbling thieves missed the most important piece: an elegant golden statue of a dragon.  When Rabbit returns to the scene of the crime, he learns that nothing is as it...

"I am a seamstress, I am."   She is the one who stitches the kingdom together, creates hidden valleys for the magical to find and harsh peaks for fools to throw themselves against.  How she chooses her stitches is up to her.  What happens when a God weaves together her land out of vengeance?

Sakura considers herself an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in Tokyo, Japan, concerned with boys, school work, and family. Then the extraordinary happens, and her body starts transforming into glass. What does it mean? Why her? And what is she supposed to do now? Originally...

Jacob practices polismancy: he divines the future from the entrails of his beloved city, Seattle. What happens when the city still willingly bleeds for him, but the voice of God grows silent? Contains the bonus story, "The Doom of Alokai Temple."

Gracie lives in town and works for Mr. Dickerson, hidden in the back room 'cause no one wants a mere girl fixing their whirligigs or automatons. Gracie fights against the attitude that girls should only get married and have babies, but no one will hire her on her own.  Then she meets...

Devil?  Or angel?  Gabriella has lived all her life following other people's plans, using their definitions of her body, allowing them to judge her abilities.  Finally, though, Gabriella is ready to take her life into her own hands.

Betty misses England. She misses her friends, the calm rain patting the leaves in the garden, the cool of the summer evenings. She'll be going back soon. The British are leaving India. Her Indian cousins walk taller with their independence. They tell her she can't understand: Betty is too...

Beauty has a Fate. A Destiny. To keep dating loser and "beasts" until she manages to find that prince hidden underneath that bad boy exterior. But what if she doesn't want to? What if she wants to take control of her own destiny? Fairy Tale Fates is part of the Uncollected Anthology, issue 16: Fairy Tales

A JumpSail breakdown after the battle at First Severnaya Zemlya and strands CS-405 deep behind enemy lines. One barely-armed scout corvette must cross Buran’s star empire to make it home. But first, they need to commit a little piracy. Part of the Alexandria Station universe and the...

Hive’s dreams saved the future. Now she dreams bigger. The Gods have language. They can be contacted as equals. She will do so, and discover a greater secret than she ever imagined possible. With this new-found knowledge, she will set out to conquer an even greater frontier than Valhalla. Also read the first Hive story, "Myrmidons."

Handsome Rob, Secret Agent. At least until the Lincolnshire government mucked everything up, reactivating his commission in the space fleet. Time for another impossible mission: destroy a secret space station set up by a crime syndicate. Just him. All by his lonesome. Against...