Emergent Publishing: 8 books

Monday Morning. 7.30AM. The International Terminal of a major European Airport is poised on the brink of chaos. 7.35AM. Pangean Airlines, Europe's Premier Carrier, is placed into receivership, cancelling all flights and impounding thousands of items of luggage. THE YIN AND YANG BOOK...

"I used to think there was an unexpected freedom in unread letters. To know at the end of writing I'd be the only one intimate with the contents. Now I think it's the worst kind of invisibility...that I'm disappearing slowly with each word." Experimental in style, structure and form, these...

Every story carries a second side, sometimes heard, more often not. Or a beginning, purposely or accidentally unmentioned. An ending left out because to include it would make it all too hard. Until now. These eight stories echo the heart of another. Revisted are a jar of olives,...

In a small North American university town ten lives are intersecting. Miranda is reaping what she has sown. Mitchell understands there is no resisting fate. Clint dreams of pursuing a violent destiny. Elizabeth is about to make a discovery. Robin hides a terrible...

1989: a cusp between decades.The year the Berlin Wall came down and Voyager went up. Ted Bundy and Emperor Hirohito died. The birth of the first Bush administration and computer virus.In San Francisco and Newcastle the ground shook, in Chernobyl it melted. Tiananmen Square shocked the world and Tank...

DECK THE HALLS traverses the joy and jeopardy of the festive season, from Yule to Mōdraniht, Summer Solstice to Years’ End. The stories journey through consternations and celebrations, past, present and future, which might be or never were. Along the way you’ll meet troll hunters, consumer...

In a devastated world, a voice calls out through the darkness of space, a young woman embraces Darwin, a man lays flowers in a shattered doorway, a two-dimensional wedding feast awaits guests, a Dodge Challenger roars down the deserted highway…and that’s just the beginning. Inspired by...

Twenty-six authors trade Tiny Dancer’s California- blessed lyrics for the shadowed recesses of stages large and small in From Stage Door Shadows, a speculative fiction homage to the darkness just beyond the limelight of the entertainment industry. The stories re-introduce the women Bernie...