This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of magic, living fossils awakened when the coal formed of them burns. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.
Half of the stories in this anthology you can read here for the very first time!
The stories in this anthology are:
"Withholding Judgment Day" by Ryan Dull
"For the Last Time, It's Not a Ray Gun" by Anaea Lay
"The Hammer's Prayer" by Benjamin C. Kinney
"The Memory Cookbook" by Aaron Fox-Lerner
"The Efficacy of Tyromancy Over Reflective Scrying Methods in Prediction of Upcoming Misfortunes of Divination Colleagues, A Study by Cresivar Ibraxson, Associate Magus, Wintervale University" by Amanda Helms
"Giant Robot and the Infinite Sunset" by Derrick Boden
"How Rigel Gained a Rabbi (Briefly)" by Benjamin Blattberg
"Tank!" by John Wiswell
"The Fisher in the Yellow Afternoon" by Michael Anthony Ashley
"Local Senior Celebrates Milestone" by Matthew Claxton
"Glass in Frozen Time" by M.K. Hutchins
"The Man Whose Left Arm Was a Cat" by Jennifer Lee Rossman
"The Vegan Apocalypse: 50 Years Later" by Benjamin A. Friedman
"The Coal Remembers What It Was" by Paul R. Hardy
"Her February Face" by Christie Yant
"Medium Matters" by R.K. Duncan
"The Dictionary For Dreamers" by Cislyn Smith
"Graduation in the Time of Yog-Sothoth" by James Van Pelt
"The Last Death" by Sahara Frost
"Jesus and Dave" by Jennifer Lee Rossman
"Still Life With Grave Juice" by Jim Moss
"The Divided Island" by Rhys Hughes
"Heaven For Everyone" by Aimee Ogden
"Crimson Hour" by Jesse Sprague
"Pumpkin and Glass" by Sean R. Robinson
