Harvest's in... Sue faces the biggest challenge of her career: she has three weeks to raise millions of dollars for research into a supergrain that promises to end world hunger. But ayalendo has some distressing -- even dangerous -- qualities. And Lucifer means to exploit them to control the world's food supply and become a god at last. When Tess learns the identity of the shady corporation pushing ayalendo's development, she realizes her own livelihood may be in jeopardy. She and Darrell embark on a cross-country journey to her parents' farm to gather information for a congressional...

A Fool's journey begins with a single step... Julia Morton Michaud has fled Chicago for her grandparents' summer home in Michiana. She believes the cottage near Lake Michigan will be a refuge - a quiet place for her to pursue a writing career while her spirit heals from a string of failed relationships. But her past keeps intruding. Her ex-husband, Lance, is under investigation for defrauding his wealthy investors, and the specter of having to testify at his trial hangs over her. She begins a new relationship with a man she hardly knows. And her neighbor and former lover, David Turner, is...

Can a god go crazy? Sage Curtis, reluctant Savior of the Earth, has been yanked around by the gods her whole life. Even though the Native American spirit Thunderbird has given her certain magical gifts, all she wants to do is finish her engineering degree so she can fix Earth's climate with science. Not with laser eyes. And definitely not by flying. Then Veles, the god of the Slavic underworld, invades her dreams. He intends to battle her until the Earth is no more, in the belief that it's the only way to reboot the planet - never mind the collateral damage. Even avoiding this battle will...

FOCUS. Webb Curtis has a number of urgent projects on his plate. He's supposed to be studying mediation techniques so he can help his mother negotiate a new peace agreement among the gods. He's also supposed to be tracking down the goddess responsible for his mother's illness - and to do that, he needs to find a new way into the gods' realm, as the Norse Trickster Loki has locked it down while He nudges His fellow gods and goddesses toward the ultimate destruction of the Earth. But Webb isn't doing any of that. And he can't remember why. What he needs is a whack upside the head...

The regular anthologies which Five59 publishes quarterly - thirteen volumes not counting this title - have always been limited to short stories. This time, however, we decided to include poetry and non-fiction; therefore, it's a "Free-For-All." We hope you enjoy this varied collection from the Five59 Authors' Assembly.