Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do. She seduces one of her teachers, hoping to ruin his life just for the fun of it. This starts Kim on a runaway train of sadism as she makes every effort to destroy the lives of those around her. But soon simple backstabbing is not enough to keep her excited, and she nosedives into sabotage, violence and even murder. When Kim finds out she’s pregnant with her teacher’s child, a new madness overtakes her, and she realizes there’s only one thing that will satisfy her baby’s hunger . . .

13 terrifying coming-of-rage stories from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, perfect for fans of Clive Barker, Mariana Enriquez and Eric LaRocca 13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them—wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling. A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in "Why We Keep Exploding;" an impossible world of sinister desire opens beneath a family basement in "A Living Piece of Time;" a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in "The Long Flesh of the Law;" and in the acclaimed novella "Benny Rose, the Cannibal King," a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world. These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you'll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.

Celebrate adoration and exhilaration within these pages, featuring an anthology of talented voices within the LGBTQIA+ community. Told in multi-faceted layers of memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry, each contributor shares a priceless event or moment where they discovered their own queer joy. The stories in I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy focus on finding devotion within yourself and with others. Their powerful prose invites us into these very personal moments and recognizes that being who you are is a precious gift we all deserve. The mission of this anthology is to be inclusive among its participants, establishing a series of experiences that will have the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies delighting in the beauty that is queer love. Join us in this collection that honors queer voices through the delightful pleasure in everyday occurrences. I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy is edited by Samantha Mann, the author of Putting Out: Essays on Otherness. Her work has been featured in Elle, Romper, BUST, Miss Representation, and The Audacity.

An evil video game A lying Twitch streamer A demon hungry for her secrets After spending the summer wracked with guilt about causing the accident that killed her little sister, ambitious gamer and chronic liar Viv returns to Twitch streaming. She never told her parents the truth about the accident, but she hopes that maybe making it big in streaming and giving the money to them is penance enough for her mistakes. The weekend before school starts, Viv finds the perfect horror game to make her Twitch comeback, and during an offline practice run, an NPC asks Viv for a secret. She decides to tell them the truth about her sister’s death since a game could never share her secret―in doing so, she accidentally welcomes a demonic mimic into her life. No one believes Viv when she tells them about her evil doppelganger. Viv has lied to get her best friend’s sympathy and has spread rumors for attention, so why should anyone trust her now? The only person who believes her is Ash, a cute social outcast whom Viv once bullied. In trying to clear her name and kill the mimic, Viv discovers that her lies have hurt people who never deserved it, herself included.

In the domed city of Kronos, the unquiet Quicken first. Or so the authorities claim, after the Quickening’s spontaneous mutation rocks the city, turning many of its youth—already maligned for their body modifications and sexual freedom—into Flesh Eaters or Healers. But now, the deceptive freedom of Era-2 dawns and the formerly incarcerated Quickened are eager to join parties, protests, revelries, and revolutions. Nora is an unregistered Eater who inadvertently killed her queerplatonic partner Eden when she monstered, while her sister Evi took the fall for her. Except Evi Eden is alive, a Healer caught in the espionage plot led by rich, mysterious benefactor March. Nora must come out of hiding because she has something March’s revolution a data-looting device capable of exposing the cruelty of the correctional facilities and leading Kronos into a new era of kinship. However, a new hunger sprouts in a city prone to devouring its children, and every glittering revolution comes with a steep price.

A serene home. A transcendent soul. A single, unbreakable tenet… "If it does not bring great peace to the eternal flower of your soul, discard it!" Join Noriko Ōno, one of the world's most influential minimalist tidying gurus, as she unveils an exclusive new philosophy she claims can help you to actualise pure tranquility; not only within your living space, but within your self. Learn the disturbing truth behind Noriko's perfectly curated life, and what she is willing to discard in order to reach perfect minimalism…But beware, this is no ordinary self-help guide. ETERNAL FLOWER OF YOUR SOUL is Klaus Kinion's debut hardcore horror novelette.