5 stories
Anatomy of an Alibi
Everyone at Chantilly’s Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn’t Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price. Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life; she’s married to hotshot lawyer Ben and is the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana family. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can’t find proof because he tracks her every move. Aubrey Price has been haunted by the terrible night that changed her life a decade ago, and she’s convinced Benjamin Bayliss knows something about it. Living in a house full of criminals, Aubrey understands there’s more than one way to get to the truth—and she may have found the best way in. Aubrey and Camille hatch a plan. It sounds simple: For twelve hours, Aubrey will take Camille’s place. Camille will spy on Ben, and the two women will get the answers they desperately seek. Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered. Both women need an airtight alibi, but only one of them has it. And one false step is all it takes for everything to come undone.
The Iron Garden Sutra
IN OUTER SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR PRAYERS. A death monk and a team of researchers are trapped onboard a long-lost spaceship of the dead in this darkly philosophical murder mystery, for fans of Becky Chambers and Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes. Vessel Iris has devoted himself to the Starlit Order, performing funeral rites for the dead across the galaxy, guiding souls back into the Infinite Light. Despite the meaning he finds in his work and the comfort of AI companionship, his relationships with the living leave him longing for deeper connection. The spaceship Counsel of Nicaea has been lost for more than a thousand years, its passengers reduced to dust and bone. A relic of Earth’s dying past, its sudden appearance has attracted a team of academics eager to investigate its archeological history. And Iris has been assigned to bring peace to the crew’s long departed souls. Carpeted in moss and intertwined with vines, Nicaea is more forest than ship. Iris’s religious rituals are met with bemusement by the scientists—and outright hostility by engineer Yan Fukui. But the plant life isn’t the only thing to have survived the past millennia. Something aboard is stalking the explorers one by one. And Iris with his Al enhancement may be their only hope for survival . .
Project Hail Mary: Vatlings
The movie cut out a lot of Vat life, which is ok! But now we are left with no face claims for these guys (Except for Lokken but she's barely in the movie)
Snakeskin
Still a draft
Weeds and Grasses
Part 1 of the Nightingale Cycle
