Every place has its unique sensibility; a flavour that makes it special. Whether one is going somewhere new or discovering the secrets that make the familiar seem foreign, where you are matters as much as when you’re there. The stories in this fifth collection from Plan B Magazine occur at the intersection of the familiar and the strange, the rise of the unexpected and the twist in the road. Let’s take a journey to the unknown. Table of Contents: "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck "Broad Daylight" by Eve Fisher "This Land of the Strange" by Math Bird "Please Wait" by Robert Dawson "Fill In The Blanks" by Stephen D. Rogers "The Double Iron Cross" by William E. Wallace "Red Bait" by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg "Broken Hearts" by Laird Long "Intimate Knowledge" by Suzanne Baginskie "The Asshat Fund" by Todd Morr "Mysterious Private Investigations" by Peter DiChellis "Coffee and Killings" by Simon Maltman "The Good Neighbor" by Lawrence Buentello

What might the deindustrial future bring? Cut off inhabitants in a flooded California face a furious storm; the residents of an island of refuge must determine the fate of unnerving visitors; a desolate landscape is visited by a series of mysterious and haunting musical notes; and one final, critical act determines the outcome of a new Civil War. These possibilities and more await in the pages within, weaving tales of the future that refuse to bow to the assumptions of our times and instead ask us to imagine what might come from the choices we face, and in what ways we might yet forge futures of meaning in the hard times ahead.

Lawrence Buentello presents 32 tales of horror and the supernatural that will creep into your subconscious and call up every fear lurking just beneath your everyday perceptions.From gothic ghosts to Lovecraftian menaces, Relentless delivers one nightmare after another in an endless procession of horrors!

"The poems in the four sections of this book, Confessions, Meditations, Artists I Have Known, and Life Songs, reflect my understanding and analysis of the world in which I've lived, of history, literature, art, and of personal and external philosophy; they are expressions of who I am, and of my perceptions of my own time, and how that time relates to other times in history....the poems in these pages also examine the fundamental questions of human existence, of love and caring, of hate and destruction, of desire and defeat, because no question is worth answering more than the one asked of the human heart."from the author's introduction

A world where you can buy any covert device you wish, for a price... a world where the Rapture seems to be on permanent hiatus... a world where a galactic Syndicate decides interstellar relations... a world where parallel evolutions exist simultaneously... The Worlds We Made presents 17 journeys into the wild imaginations of Lawrence Buentello and John Buentello, fantasy and science fiction stories of other planets, other dimensions, and other realities far beyond our own.

A future when Earth is invaded by an alien species wielding the ultimate weapon: love... a society where the ugliness of life is transformed by a miraculous technology... and a time when the potential of the universe is captured in a cube that can be held in the palm of your hand—Lawrence Buentello presents 18 ingenious stories of speculative fiction, including the novella “Sleeping Dragon” in its first world publication.

A tree that holds the souls of the dead…and the damned—a summoning at the edge of the world that threatens to strip away mankind's magic forever—a ghostly horse that promises a peace from beyond the grave—and a stone unicorn that becomes the prize in a war between two mages—John & Lawrence Buentello present these and other stories of wizards, warriors, and dragons conjured from the realms of high fantasy. From a host of demons that prove no match for the unshakable faith of a novice—to a sympathetic witch deceived into divining the heart of a murderer, here are 17 stories guaranteed to amaze, mystify, and enchant.

Welcome to the Campfire. Did you ever go camping as a kid and sit around the fire at night listening to scary stories? Creepy Campfire Quarterly features horror fiction from some of the most talented writers across the globe. Dark, disturbing, dramatic, or just down right creepy, these stories will entertain you. And perhaps the next time you are around a campfire, you'll find yourself recounting a few of these haunting tales... Featuring works from the newest crop of modern horror writers: Adrian Ludens, Melanie Cole, Eric I. Dean, Aaron Wright, Daniel Blokh, Joe Nazare, Phil Slattery, Caitlin Marceau, W. E. Mitchell, Michael Siciliano, Lawrence Buentello, Gregory L. Norris, Ken MacGregor, Mark Silcox, Tonia Thompson, Franklyn Searight, Marc Sorondo, Brandon Crilly

The hidden meaning of our lives often lies buried in circumstances that we fail to examine in our minds and in our hearts. "Ghosts of the American Dream" explores this preternatural sense in 19 short stories of people in the midst of the darkest revelations of their own American dreams. From the lyrical sadness of "Sky" to the nightmarish violence of "The Boxer," Buentello's poetic realism defines the ways in which the promise of life in America often becomes compromised by the strange and unforeseen influences of an unpredictable culture.

In these 21 science fiction and fantasy stories you'll find true love, supernatural intrigue, the end of the world, and even the face of God—as seen through the highly irreverent mind of Lawrence Buentello.From a spiritually bankrupt consumer's pursuit of a personal god in "A Miracle for Every Occasion", to one man's efforts to become a pioneer in an environmentally devastated world in "The Gates of the Sun", Buentello's ingenious fiction will keep you laughing at the wonderful absurdity of the human condition.