num_pages: 338
description: Curiosity Quills Press explores yearning, regret, and fear with the Darkscapes Anthology — a spellbinding collection of dark fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, horror, and detective fiction.Delve into worlds of terrible family secrets, unexpected doppelgängers, a home invasion on an alien planet, androids and assassins, places and people who aren’t as stable as they seem, frustrated musicians going to desperate lengths — and more.Jordan Elizabeth and W.K. Pomeroy - EXLEY AVENUEIn 1920s upstate New York, a tormented girl learns that her family’s new stone castle was built on a former cemetery, and in 2014, a former police detective uncovers horrible secretsBenjamin Sperduto - LENA’S SONGIn the near future, two frustrated musicians and creative partners get in on the ground floor of neural firestreaming — but an old guitar creates an unexpected effectMark W. Woodring - SORRY FOR THE MOUSEA veteran back from Afghanistan develops a strange hobby to stay sane — but it doesn’t work as well as he had hopedJ.R. Rain - SKELETON JIMA skeleton detective who leads a double life as an Internet sensation takes a beautiful woman on as a client — and gets more than he bargained forS.E. Bennett - OF LUSHER AND SLEEPIn this modern, alternative imagining of Romeo and Juliet, a veteran from an old-money family returns to London for his mother’s funeral and is confronted with a toxic history of two warring families — and a lost loveB.C. Johnson - ROOMIESHousemates experience something deeply unsettling during an earthquakePiers Anthony - IN THE SHADOW OF THE SONGAn American’s car is rear-ended by a lost Muslim traveler with diplomatic immunity; the traveler sings in the American’s place at his daughter’s school recital — with surprising resultsRobert J Defendi - THE GIOVANNI EFFECTA man who lives alone with his family on a terraformed wind turbine farm receives a disturbing visitorJ.E. Anckorn - FOUR HUNDRED EYES, SIXTY-FOUR HUNDRED TEETHAn existentially anxious former star of a London goth rock band, missing fame and creativity, regains something he thought was lostDarin Kennedy - CIRCULAR ARGUMENTA severely dehydrated man is trapped in an endless loop on an external tram-shuttle around his base — and his patience with the on-board AI is frayingAndrew Buckley - MOSES AND THE TALKING BUSH THAT WAS INCONVENIENTLY ON FIREAn exhausted Moses herds sheep for his father-in-law until a burning bush gives him a holy quest he’s rather reluctant to doJ.P. Sloan - FAIL HOUSEOn the night the Chinese land the first mission to Mars, unemployed roommates in a crumbling American city navigate through riots to their government-subsidized housing — but is it the safe place they thought it would be?James Wymore - ICUA workaholic lawyer wakes up in an intensive care unit with painful regretsTegan Wren - BOOTHEELAn aged German soldier returns to the Missouri Bootheel where he picked cotton as a POW, digs up an old mirror — and dares to look at his reflectionNathan Croft - SECOND SENTIENCEIn this New Weird goat fantasy, two caprifauns explore a lost city — and their possible past livesRena Rocford - LANDING A JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTORWhen an Imperial assassin’s Keeper betrays the Empire, the assassin goes off-planet — to transition out of government work as fast as possibleAnn M. Noser - TRAPPEDA woman is trapped inside a body with Alzheimer’s diseaseMatthew S. Cox - OUT OF SIGHTUnwanted kids wake up in an escape pod after years in stasis, and an AI bracelet is their only chance to make sense of a wild uncharted planetRandy Attwood - A MATCH MADE IN HEAVENA processing plant worker on a cattle farming planet boards an interstellar ship to bring back a wife — and learns a hard lessonKatie Young - THE ONE YOU FEEDA wolf hunter offers his services to a professional steer roper, hoping the cowboy will be his champion at the right timeRichard Roberts - HEART OF THE HARVESTERA boy’s father sends him to a dangerous city populated with machines in order to bring back the heart of a harvester — but will the boy pass his test and become a man?
language: English
title: Curiosity Quills: Darkscapes
publisher: Curiosity Quills Press