About the Book
Assemble Artifacts
A short story magazine that assembles a thrilling new mix of stories from genres including horror, science-fiction, comedy, and suspense. Buried at the heart of every story in the magazine is a unique artifact, an object that has inspired our storytellers to create a big idea, an irresistible question, a new immersive world, or a sense of wonder. Unearth your next great read with Assemble Artifacts.
"The Family Proof" by Arianna Reiche
Human-like androids on a mission to assimilate into suburbia as a nuclear family are placed in a high stakes game of murder and deception when their anonymous creator vanishes.
"First Ship" by Eric Lewis
An astronaut sure of her destiny to be the first person to reach a new star system realizes she's about to be beaten to the history books and takes desperate measures to get there first.
"Love, Happiness, and All the Things You May Not Be Destined For" by Lindz McLeod
A young woman meets with older and younger versions of herself in which they guide her, with astronomical ramifications, towards an unfamiliar path.
"Prism" by Nick Shafir
A newly discovered phenomenon causes ghosts to be seen all over the world. As the events grow more frequent and precarious, a woman with the special ability to speak to the apparitions must find out what's causing these events before it's too late.
"End of the Earth" by Brianna R. Whitrock
Tired of putting her faith in science and logic, Nic goes on a fantastical odyssey to the ends of the Earth to reunite with the adventurous love of her life.
"Mephisto & Me" by Lyle Stiles
After a police officer murders his father, a high school junior deals with trauma and resentment--and the sudden appearance of Mephisto, a mouthy demon-possessed robot who promises a skewed version of justice ... World-ending Armageddon.
About the Author :
Arianna Reiche is an American writer living in east London. Her fiction has been published by Ambit Magazine, Joyland, Popshot, SAND Journal, and The Mechanics' Institute Review. She was nominated for the Bridport Prize in 2020, and won the 2017 Glimmer Train Fiction Open and the 2021 Tupelo Press Prose Prize. Her debut novel, At the End of Every Day, is forthcoming from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.
By day Eric Lewis is a research scientist weathering the latest rounds of mergers and layoffs and trying to remember how to be a person again after surviving grad school. His novels The Heron Kings and The Heron Kings' Flight are available from Flame Tree Press. His short fiction has been published in Nature, Cossmass Infinities, Speculative North, Bards & Sages Quarterly, the anthologies Crash Code and Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, the short story collections Tricks of the Blade and As It Seems, as well as many other venues detailed at EricLewis.ink.
Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer who dabbles in the surreal. Her prose has been published by Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, and many more. She is a full member of the SFWA, a Rogue Mentor, and is represented by Headwater Literary Management. She lives in Edinburgh, and enjoys writing in both English and Scots.
After years of working odd jobs, Nick Shafir began his professional writing career at Assemble Media. Among his projects with them was the comic book adaptation Mercy Sparx, which has since been optioned by MGM. In 2021, Nick's Sci-fi/Thriller script ISS was produced staring Academy Award winner Arianna DeBose. While Nick has never felt confined to any one genre, his work is often an experiment in taking highly imaginative premises and rooting them in reality as much as possible. Today, he continues to live out his dream of being a writer while working out of a small NYC apartment with his fiancé and a perpetually lethargic basset hound.
Brianna Whitrock is an author of adult speculative fiction. She writes YA under the name Brianna R. Shrum, and has published several novels for young adults, including Never, Never; How to Make Out; and The Art of French Kissing, among other titles. Her novels have been published in audiobook form, in France, and in Italy.
Lyle Stiles is a recovering researcher nursing a growing love for sci-fi. As an African American who was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and trained in the discipline of neuroscience, he brings his unique blend of personal experiences and scientific background into his fiction. His most notable short story, "The Pox Party", was published in the Black Sci-Fi Short Stories anthology in 2021. You can try to follow him and his ramblings on twitter: @thewritestiles.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor, Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.
If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness . . . qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre. Erica Sullivan is a professional actress of both stage and screen and holds her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She has spent over a decade as a Company Member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has been busy in both the stage and screen world, and has also narrated nearly one hundred audiobooks.
Kirsten Potter has won several awards, including more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Her work has been recognized by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and by AudioFile magazine, among many others. She graduated with highest honors from Boston University and has performed on stage and in film and television, including roles on Medium, Bones, and Judging Amy.
Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards.
