A press release from Danielle Ackley-McPhail of Dark Quest Books:
This anthology contains some extraordinary stories that will linger in your mind long after you close the book’s cover. The contributors to this anthology explore the delicate dance between trust and treachery across a sweeping variety of genres, time periods, and universes.
What happens when you’re betrayed by the person you should be able to trust above all others? The one you love. Maybe even the one who has promised to love, honor, and cherish you. Or even the person who gave you life.
What happens when you’re betrayed by the supposedly benevolent institutions that are supposed to protect you? Your government. Your ruler. Your god.
What if it’s your own mind that you can no longer trust?
Contents:
Foreword by Day Al-Mohamed
Introduction by Donna Andrews
“Sanctified Ground” by Beth Cato
“Live Free or Die” by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
“Infinitas” by David Taub Bancroft
“Terrible Lizards” by Demetrios Matsakis
“Listener” by Kelly Horn
“The Peculiar Testimony of Dok Oculus” by Eric A. Howald
“A Real Produce Guy” by Thomas Livingston
“Camp Why” by D.G. Bracey
“When Shakespeare was in Vogue” by Stephen Pohl
“Plan B” by John M. Floyd
“Short Dark Future” by Marian Allen
“Lunar Epithalamion” by Calie Voorhis
“Oathbreaker” by Kate Marshall
“Missing Persons” by Ann L. Kopchik
“Restraint” by Bruce Pratt
“Almost There” by Al Nash
“Assent” by J.R. McRae
“Cheat the Hangman” by Kris Dikeman
“Sweetest, Senseless Death” by Mark Mills
“Her Majesty’s Executrix” by James Daniel Ross
“Neighbour from Hell” by Edoardo Albert
“Perfect Memory” by Jonathan Shipley
“Survival” by Edward Folger
“Bad Boy” by Ray Succre
“Blind Spot” by Michaux Dempster
“The Wrong Shoes” by Chang Terhune
“The House on the Lake” by Patrick O’Neill
“1612” by Richard Smith
Afterword by Meriah Crawford
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