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Civil war soldiers cross a field carrying a flag and pulling a wagon. Overlaid on the image are gravestones, and the entirety is sepia toned except for the top half of a Union/American flag (white stars on a blue field on the left and horizontal stripes of white and red on the right), and the bottom half of the Confederate battle flag (red background, with a blue X outlined in white, and with white stars on it).

Shades of Blue and Gray

By: Melissa Scott, Steve Berman (editor)

$6.99
Fleeing from her ex-lover in Depression-era Arkansas, Cory Taggert stumbles across a family secret — and the ghost that keeps it.
Available in Trade Paperback and eBook from Amazon
A person with medium length hair wearing a fitted dark jumpsuit stands in front of a immensely tall alien structure that looks like a mix between a skyscraper and a living being. The sky above is black and filled with a blue and purple nebula

The Other Half of the Sky

By: Athena Andreadis (editor), Melissa Scott

$7.00
"Finders" is a tight, taut story about a salvage operation that goes terribly wrong.
Available in Trade Paperback and eBook from Candlemark & Gleam
A winged fairy with pale skin, long dark hair, and blue and grey wings poses on a forest path on pointe with arms in third position and legs in passe (one arm straight up, the other to the side and one leg bent with the toes touching the knee of the other leg).

So Fey

By: Melissa Scott, Steve Berman (editor)

$16.00
In Depression-era Arkansas, Tully Swann runs liquor for his bootlegger lover, Joe Farr.
Available in Trade Paperback from Lethe Press
A figure lays draped in red fabric as they lie in front of a large picture window. The fire in the hearth gives off heat that seems to pass through the person's body before floating away.

Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades

By: Catherine Lundoff (editor), Melissa Scott

In "One-Horse Town" two women fight to balance justice for an abandoned wife with keeping the secret that haunts their farm.
A pale person with long hair floating around their face and wearing an outfit made up of rings of flattened silver crawls across a metallic landscape.

Periphery

By: Lynn Jamneck (editor), Melissa Scott

After an accident in jump-space causes her lover to lose her memory, a space pilot is determined to win her back.
People in spacesuits around a crashing ship.

Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction

By: Melissa Scott, Patrick Swenson (editor), Robert Kruger (editor)

Cass Lairmore is achronic, his ability to form lasting memories burned away in a jump accident, but when another pilot is lost in the not-yet, he's the only person who
An image of Carmen Miranda in full dance pose, covered with fruit decorations, floats in space in front of an Earth like planet while a space station and astronaut float in space in front of her skirts.

Carmen Miranda’s Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three

By: Don Sakers (editor), Melissa Scott

Interstellar chess prodigy and enfant terrible Raynes is preparing for the match of a lifetime, but his opponent is obsessed with the image of a long-dead dancer.
A genie in the shape of a belly dancer enthralls a group of turbaned people seated on the ground at the genie's feet.

Arabesques II

By: Melissa Scott, Susan Shwartz (editor)

"The Merchant" revisits Shakespeare's play, with a queer twist.