Nine new fantasy and science fiction tales full of twists, surprises, shocks and tantalising hints of strange worlds and unknown phenomena. We've got a spaceship running out of air, a dragon who can't fly, a detective with supernatural help, a man who wants to stay hidden, robot helpers, talking trees, time travel and something strange happening to America's guns.

• In Fugit, Cheryl Sonnier shows us what it might be like to meet your future self. Did you achieve all those dreams? Or re you old, grizzled and on a mission to make sure you don't make the same mistakes you already did. Or might be about to.
• In Scream of the Firewood, Jonathan Olfert gives us a living ship, mobile sentient trees and a horror scenario turned unlikely love match in an unnerving fantasy story.
• In Unfamiliar. Matt McHugh introduces Martine Geller, an investigator with an unnatural advantage - a living spirit - and an uncanny ability to get into trouble.
• In The Leisure Class, M Luke McDonnell offers a glimpse into the future, where AI rules and robots take your job. Sound familiar?
• in End Times, Bran Maycock reflects on the apocalypse.
• In Miser, Thomas J. Griffin's back from the dead hero has to find a man who doesn't want to be found. A tale of murky characters and shifting allegiences.
• In Seeing the Stars, Rick Danforth presents a spaceship, a stowaway, teh endless void and a rapidly diminishing supply of air. They're not both going to make it. Unless...
• In Flying Takes Heart, Adrienne Caninio gives us a feelgood dragon with a flying prioblem living in a world that gradually comes to forget. Until one day, danger strjkes...
• In A Calvarial Suffusion of Peace, Jason P. Burnham tackles an issue that shouln't be controversial, yet somehow is. Guns. And why they're everywhere, just begging to be fired...
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All new thought-provoking stories from the uplifting to the unnerving.