Power, conspiracy, loyalty, manipulation, and betrayal.
Justice and revenge driven by anger, depression, loss.
Compromise, jeopardy, fortitude, and redemption.

What rules are you willing to break to get what you want? Even antagonists can have a moral code sometimes with something they're not willing to sacrifice, a line they're not willing to cross.

These dilemmas require not only some fortitude and will, but also the willingness to do the wrong thing for what they see as the right reasons. In the end, they may be wrong, but can they live with it? Was it ethically right, or might their value system contain a slight strain of sociopathy? Or more than just a strain?

Edited by Jeff Circle
Foreword by Eli Cranor

• Sisters by Eric Beetner
• Buckets by C.B. Bernard
• The High Priest of Low Men by C.W. Blackwell
• Soldiering by Wes Browne
• AITA by Mindy Carlson
• Hallucinogenic Toreador by Ash Clifton
• Dull the Pain by Libby Cudmore
• They Eat Their Own by Victor DeAnda
• Protégé by Erin Flanagan
• Donor Heart by Rob Hart
• The Welcome Wagon by Terrence McCauley
• The Men with the Remade Face by Matt Phillips
• For Rosalie, with Love by M.E. Proctor
• Third-Year Practice by C. Matthew Smith
• Do You Walk Alone? by Christopher Swann
• Drink the Rich by Tony Wirt