A Crack In Everything by Daniel Marcus Release Date: September 2011, ISBN: 9780973804751, $14.95 US, 230 Pages Buy it @ Amazon or download it for free in PDF format. From Publisher's Weekly - Marcus delivers a touching and often melancholy contemporary fantasy that deftly avoids straying into over-sentimentality. While on a family vacation, alcoholic father Gene crashes his car and ends up in a coma. As he flashes back through his various misadventures, his wife and son both find themselves dealing with supernatural encounters. Maggie, a recovering alcoholic herself, has visions of hitting a dog her husband had killed years ago, while alcohol mysteriously appears in their rented trailer. Teen Gabe meets Otto, a man who looks like God but might just be a trickster spirit. The supernatural is present throughout, but Marcus focuses on the characters attempting to deal with real-world stressors like Gene's injuries and Gabe's hormones. Marcus's characters are believable and layered, avoiding the cliches that so often plague novels of addiction, and the emotional climax pays off nicely.

Sleeping With Gods by Michael Fontana Release Date: April 2010, ISBN: 9780973804744, $13.95 US, 216 Pages Buy it @ Amazon or download it for free in PDF format. After a suicide attempt, 19 year old Mark finds himself living in a rooming house, hardly anything to his name except a seemingly endless supply of Pepsi. Told by his therapist to socialize, he befriends his housemate Daniel, who tries to introduce the intimacy-fearing Mark to the world of women. Then Mark meets Leah, a girl with her own troubled past. In his remarkable debut novel, Michael Fontana weaves together the lives of two lost souls.

Burn Rate by Daniel Marcus Release Date: May 2009, ISBN: 9780973804737, $14.95 US, 272 Pages Buy it @ Amazon or download it for free in PDF format. Ross and Lori Williamson are living the Boomer version of the American Dream. Ross is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, battered but still standing after the Internet collapse. Lori has quit her upscale corporate law job to make pottery, study martial arts, and start a family. Unable to conceive, they hire Annie Day as a surrogate to bear their fertilized egg to term. Annie has a few skeletons in her closet, including an ex-boyfriend desperate for cash and on the run from the Italian and Russian mobs.

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.