"The Guardener's Tale" is a dystopic novel of the future in which everything is controlled and perfect, from work to sex. Unemployment does not exist. Stimulants and holograms enhance the sexual experience. One man, Thorne, searches for something more. He learns that there is a subculture which is able, to some extent, to avoid the trappings of the perfect society...for a while. Interested in the past, Thorne learns the deadly psychological secret of the perfect society. But the past, as they say, is prologue, as is Thorne's future.

THE BURNING MAIDEN
Where Literature and the Supernatural Meet
Sixteen new short stories from bestselling authors...
Joe R. Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water, Bullets and Fire)
Matthew Pearl (The Dante Club, The Technologists)
Louis Bayard (The School of Night, The Black Tower)
Lyndsay Faye (The Gods of Gotham, Dust and Shadow)
Charles Johnson (Middle Passage, Oxherding Tale)
AND MORE
Sixteen stories and poems that redefine the boundary between horror and literature
FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY ANTHOLOGY EDITOR, GREG KISHBAUGH:
THE BLURRED LINE
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