Introducing our upcoming Summer 2015 line-up of new short stories! BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PROUDLY PRESENTS Four Short Stories for the Sagacious Reader After a successful first season of short stories – Fairytale Retellings – we Book Smugglers are proud to bring you our sophomore season of out-of-this-world stories. Our new theme of First Contact is one that we knew would be a challenge for authors submitting their work. Although the immediate thoughts that comes to mind when thinking about First Contact are “science fiction” and “aliens”, we had hoped to see a subversion of this theme – and we were not disappointed. The stories we selected for publication rose to this subversion challenge beautifully: one features a first encounter between a woman and a falling star; another, the first contact between a young girl and freedom of choice. And then there is one story that is actually a traditional first encounter with an alien…but with a twist. One of these stories is comedic, satirical sci-fi with heart, another is an apocalyptic romance among the stars, and one is an alternate historical mythological fantasy yarn. Finally – because we can never limit ourselves to just three stories – we have an […]