• 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology • Contains “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones, 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Fiction • Contains “Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff, 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story • 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology “Allen’s strange and lovely fifth genre-melding fantasy anthology selects 20 new short stories of unusual variety, texture, compassion, and perception. . . . All the stories afford thought-provoking glimpses into alternative realities that linger, sparking unconventional thoughts, long after they are first encountered.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The arrangement is superb. This anthology of 20 stories can resemble a symphony of themes and variations in a wide range of keys, or a tapestry whose elements form patterns of imagery and meaning that shift and offer new insights throughout the book.” —Locus The Clockwork Phoenix anthologies offer homes to “well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously,” as Locus Magazine once put it. The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series has returned for a fifth incarnation, triumphantly risen from the ashes after another successful Kickstarter campaign. This is the largest installment yet, holding twenty new tales of beauty and strangeness. With original fiction from Jason Kimble, Rachael K. Jones, Patricia Russo, Marie Brennan, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rob Cameron, A. C. Wise, Gray Rinehart, Sam Fleming, Sunil Patel, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, Holly Heisey, Barbara Krasnoff, Sonya Taaffe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Shveta Thakrar, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, and Beth Cato. Cover art by Paula Arwen Owen. “And then there is that secret restaurant . . . It is perfection on a plate! And you feel better about yourself and your life and the world every time you go there. Clockwork Phoenix is the name of this restaurant, and Mike Allen is the restaurateur. One sublime dish after another, and yet I still have my favorites that I keep coming back to.” —Little Red Reviewer Table of contents: “The Wind at His Back” by Jason Kimble “The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” by Rachael K. Jones “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo “The Mirror-City” by Marie Brennan “The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron “A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)” by A.C. Wise “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray Rinehart “The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” by Sam Fleming “Social Visiting” by Sunil Patel “The Book of May” by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez “The Tiger’s Silent Roar” by Holly Heisey “Sabbath Wine” by Barbara Krasnoff “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe “Two Bright Venuses” by Alex Dally MacFarlane “By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” by Shveta Thakrar “The Games We Play” by Cassandra Khaw “The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson “The Souls of Horses” by Beth Cato

Jason Kimble is an author and motivational speaker who writes about multiple aspects of life, while bringing clairity and understanding to everyone he encounters, Although he's currently serving a sentence in T.D.C.J Mr. Kimble has set his sights toward higher educational reform and being an instrumental voice in addressing the many social crisis plaguing our youth all across America.

Betwixt is a quarterly magazine of eclectic speculative fiction. The print edition of issue 7 collects all four stories originally published online. Issue 7 includes the following stories:"Blueberry Knight" by Jennifer Hykes"The Creature That Came In and Ate All Our Food, and Emptied Our Wallets, and Stole All Our Hearts" by Trevor Shikaze"At Her Fingertips" by Jason Kimble"Frenemies" by Peri Fae Blomquist

Follow former Photojournalist Philip Frowley on the last "assignment" of his career and possibly his life as he documents the aftermath of a deadly virus that has brought on the socially popular "Zombie Apocalypse" with not-so romantic results. Explore what it is to be human in the face humanity's demise and see if the Spirit survives!

Long shadows is a great deal of imagination, a Visual Confection in the guise of alien documentation, a field guide of wonder.

Anonymous transmissions from around the globe, intercepted during the most recent submissions period at OrthogonalSF.net. Five new stories of the recondite, esoteric, alien, and Other as encrypted by: Teo Yi Han KS O'Neill Jason Kimble Eliot Fintushel Amy Power Jansen Spin the dial and listen close: The Evolution will not be cleartext.

In a world once ruled under the auspices of honoring family and friends, two sisters were born to find they have niether. Thrust into an ancient conflict of which they had no knowledge nor inclination to enter, Phyre Dawn and Ariana Fate must learn to trust and forgive in a time when both are attributes dreamed of only in the stories of old. However, bittersweet?

After a dust storm brings on the zombie apocalypse, a once famous photo journalist goes about documenting the end of days; all while fighting the dark reality of humanity in the face of an undead catastrophe.

In a world once ruled under the auspices of honoring family and friends, two sisters were born to find they have niether. Thrust into an ancient conflict of which they had no knowledge nor inclination to enter, Phyre Dawn and Ariana Fate must learn to trust and forgive in a time when both are attributes dreamed of only in the stories of old. However, bittersweet?