Stumble Down the Mountainside by Ian Donnell Arbuckle Release Date: October 2007, ISBN: 9780973804713, $11.95 US, 160 Pages Buy it @ Amazon or download it for free in PDF format. Lithium has just graduated college and wants nothing more than to sleep in late on summer mornings and occasionally hit his younger brother with a stick. One morning, he wakes up to find the rest of humanity gone, destroyed in a man-made apocalypse -- but somehow his family is untouched. Drug-addled Mom; his brothers, suicidal Brat and jelly-spined paranoiac Grant; his Dad the zombie. Lithium begins to feel like the center of a brand new rarity: the dysfunctional family. He is the tormented middle child, but he's the last middle child on Earth. As far as he is concerned, that means he gets to write the rules from here on out.

Goodbye, Darwin edited by Cavan Terrill and G.R.C. Lewis Release Date: November 2006, ISBN: 0973804726, $11.95 US, 220 Pages Buy it @ Amazon or download it for free in PDF format. In Ian Donnell Arbuckle's "Hard Wonder" a father searches desperately for his son in a world where emotions have become currency. In Jeremy Benjamin's "At An Angle", a new drug allows people to sleepwalk through their lives while getting off on the ultimate high. In "Keeping Vigil at the Tree of Life", from R. Michael Burns, a scientist discovers that myths from the civilizations that have come before us may not simply be the stuff of fantasy. Twelve exciting new writers present their visions of our future with stories of new technology, fragmenting governments, and alien artifacts.