Since 1996, the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group has been helping local writers improve their craft. In 2012, CSFWG took the next step in encourging creativity and drive in their members by publishing the first bi-annual anthology, taking the best stories on a particular theme from its members.

This is the third anthology published by the CSFWG. It contains eleven different stories ranging in genre from paranormal fantasy and science fiction to horror and ghost stories to literary and romance. Each story takes the reader into an author's unique vision of Colorado thus the name...

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.

Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic...

Decades after environmental and economic collapse, pockets of settlements struggle to maintain a much-reduced civilization by strictly rationing resources--including the ability to have children. Enid of Haven, an investigator in this community, travels to a far-flung village with her new, inexperienced partner to settle a minor resource dispute. But while there, the murder of an outsider demands her attention, and leads to explosive secrets.