The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum

Out tomorrow! The Unraveling, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each member conforms to the rigid social system.

Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria—a controversial and intriguing friendship, since Shria is Vail-gendered.

Soon Fift and Shria unintentionally wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle which turns into a multilayered Unraveling of society. Fift is torn between zir attraction to Shria and the safety of zir family, between staying true to zir feelings and social compliance . . . when zir personal crises suddenly take on global  significance. What’s a young Staid to do when the whole world is watching?

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Cover reveal! Fight, Flight, or Shift by Kira Brinamon

Fight, Flight, or Shift
Kira Brinamon
Publication date: May 4th 2021
Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy

When she was a kid, Billie’s father accidentally shot her mother, thinking he was protecting the family from a mountain lion. Only, the mountain lion was her mother, and now Billie is the only shapeshifter left in the mountain town of Juniper, Colorado—possibly the only one left anywhere, as far as Billie knows. Now, Billie works at the historic Silver Coin Hotel, and when she’s not serving drinks, checking in tourists, or leading bogus ghost tours, the hotel proprietor, Mitch, exploits her shapeshifting abilities to spy on the patrons of his illegal casino.

When she discovers that a local drug dealer is peddling a dangerous new synthetic drug called Scarlet, Mitch wants him taken care of and tries to convince Billie to do the deed. She refuses—but he winds up dead anyway, along with two of Mitch’s henchmen. With all three deaths looking like the result of wild animal attacks and a vindictive boss ready to out her secret, the blame is going to rest on her shoulders if she can’t figure out who or what did the killing.

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Kira Brinamon grew up in the Rocky Mountains and now lives near the Rio Grande. She holds degrees in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and the University of Colorado, Boulder. When not writing, you can often find her at a yoga studio or on a hiking trail. Find her on Twitter @KiraBrinamon and online at www.KiraBrinamon.com

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Out now on Radish Fiction: An Apocalyptic First Impression

It's been seven years and one apocalypse since Aline last saw Micah, the love of her life. They met in high school, dated for a few months, and then were shunted to different realms as magical forces rent the bounds of reality. Now she's back on Earth and desperate to make things work, but it's complicated. Micah never knew Aline was a shifter, or has the supernatural ability to jump worlds. He's had his fill of the strange and fantastical. It nearly got him killed seven years ago. 

But he is at least willing to let Aline tell him her story and explain why she disappeared. Will she be able to convince him that even though the rest of her kind were psychopathic, nihilistic manipulators, she's different? Or is she lying even to herself? She does have a few murders to explain, after all. 

Can true love endure across so much time and chaos, or will Aline have to accept that the things she did to save the world are a bridge too far for the man she loves?

You can get this story on Radish, which is a phone app that lets you read chapters one at a time. (So please make sure to click that link on your phone--if you are on your computer, you just get a link to the story summary and no way to get to the book itself.) If you're patient, you can read this for free, or you can pay to unlock chapters faster.

Access the story here: https://radishfiction.com/stories/11694?_branch_match_id=884854224957644928

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