2015 BEST KINDLE BOOK AWARDS SEMI-FINALIST Lilly is ten years old, living in poverty, born with a heart defect, and already addicted to heroin. Her mother is gone from her life, and there are rumors that she was killed by her father and buried near the abandoned house across the street. The house intrigues her, she can't stay away, and the monstrous homeless man who lives there has been trying to get Lilly to come inside. For her mother is there, buried in the back, and this homeless man is Lilly's true father, and both want their daughter back.

In the Ares issue of Pantheon Magazine, we bring you stories and poetry of war, in all its many forms. The internal conflict we've all experienced, the obsessions we struggle to keep in line day in and day out. In the future, we meet the Ronald McDonalds of the next generation, the beautiful and flawless Avonna, in Nathan Beauchamp's science fiction thriller. We're treated to a terrifying look at a sign holder's downward spiral and self-destruction in Richard Thomas' The God Of War. We find out that age and time are two very, very separate things in House Of Clouds. These stories and more in...