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The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions.

Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie’s only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain—if they were portrayed at all.

Focusing on living a life without limits and not putting restrictions on your given talents, gifts, and personality, this how-to, self-help book will introduce you to a new way of thinking and seeing that will dictate the energy you put out, which will, in turn, attract more new, exciting, and motivational things. Your circles will become more specialized and like-minded, the opportunities will become more abundant and specific, and your contributions to the world will expand significantly.

Artist Proof is a collection of stories about the human condition and our need to create. Artistic qualities within the mind are an important part of our communication as a species. Artist Proof presents practicing artists, architects, writers, and more, along with their work, as an audio portrait of their journey and career. The show taps into something deeper than just the paint on a canvas or pixels on a screen.

Conversations between a Southern mom and her son.