China Girl by Douglas Owen Young women around the world keep disappearing. Tasked with an impossible-to-solve investigation with only the heel of a shoe and three drops of blood, Detective Roberts must work with a reluctant Interpol officer to get a break. The streets...

Ash must fight his inner demons to overcome an addiction. But as he cleans up his life, his family is accused of stealing the Snow Leopard's crown. And the thief is his sister. Together with his long-time friend, Ash must recover the crown for the Snow Leopard, the...

In this Episode of Unbound, we explore saying Goodbye Earth, a way to leave our world behind. Talented authors from around the world make you think about how people say goodbye to our world or just life in general. Our authors explore leaving the mortal coil to...

Hope, a city of separate societies. A lone dark elf toils as a cryptographer copying scrolls and books. He left his heritage behind at a young age to seek fortune and adventure, only to settle down after losing all but one of his companions. But when young women in...

S. A. Baker delivers a new offering in the world of Winterbourne. Isobel is just a simple girl living a simple life, until the call of Seonagh’s woods just outside the creepy Winterbourne cemetery. She does not know why she is called there, but even her father, Ezra,...

This is our first ecliptic collection of short stories with the underlying theme of Lost Friends. The Unbound Anthology series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications started with over 100 submissions. Over time we laser sliced that down to 27 and asked...

From the Byzantine world of city politics to drag show night clubs and feuds among secretive groups of people gifted with unusual and frightening abilities. Familiar Scents takes us on a journey into a hidden world filled with clues scattered about a maze of violence,...

The Unbound Anthologies are a collection of short themed stories perfect for your reading pleasure. Every year we open a call to authors around the world challenging them to create never before created works of fiction, pick the best ones, and bundle them together for...

All Davis wanted was a job. So when Winterbourne Home advertised a position for an evening personal care worker, he jumped at the chance. Little did he know that another, higher-profile position waited for him; that is if the homicidal director of the home did not...

No one really knows how it ended. All that is certain is somehow, somewhere, someone fucked up. Big time. Now it is up to us, those unfortunate enough to be born at the edge of these god-forsaken caves, to prevent what is left of the world from being overrun by the...

Inside My Mind is the definitive collection of his short stories and flash fiction compiled in one anthology. Each volume covers different time periods in the writing career of Douglas Owen. Volume I, covers the very first flash fiction stories he created as well as...

In a world not unlike our own, the Realm is protected by men and women known as Spears. For years the Spears have acted as protectors of the people, enforcing the King's justice, and punishing those who would violate the peace. Children, orphaned at birth, are taken...