Best Indie Speculative Fiction

 ISSN 2578-3920

This initiative from Bards and Sages Publishing seeks to highlight the best stories being produced both by independent authors and our fellow small press publishers. We hope to bring readers an annual celebration of the amazing work being produced in the indie publishing community.

In Volume Three:

Publishing Later This Year

MRSA Me by Alicia Hilton (Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become by Bronzeville Books, 2019)

Things Forgotten on the Cliffs of Avevig by Wendy Nikel (Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline: Dieselpunk and Decopunk Fairy Tales by World Weaver Press, 2019)

Echos of the Siren by Richard Zwicker (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Issue #42, Nov. 2019)

The Rogue of Averath by Tom Jolly (Tales of Magic and Destiny by Inklings Press, 2019)

Penny the Poisonmonger: An Origin Story by Myna Chang (Enchanted Conversation: Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Myths, August 2019 issue)

Moisés and El Malverde by Jibril Stevenson ( Mojave He[art] Review , Issue #18, Oct 2019)

In My Image by Gerri Leen (The Twofer Compendium by Celestial Echo Press, 2019)

Seeking Same by H. E. Casson (Apparition Literary Magazine, Issue #7, July 2019) 

The Verandah by Jay Caselberg (Tales From the Shadow Booth, Volume IV, 2019) 

A Dragon, Sat by Liam Hogan (Daily Science Fiction, May 2019) 

The Certainty of Echoes by D. A. D’Amico (Mythic: A Quarterly Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, #9, March, 2019)

Apple by L.S. Johnson (F is for Fairy by Poise and Pen, 2019)

The Auditor and the Exorcist by M. R. M. Roshak (Working Futures by Copia Institute, 2019)

Fellscorpe and the Wishing Well by Katherine Quevedo (Heroic Fantasy, Issue #42, 2019) 

Volume Two: ISBN 9781733082228

 Lonely, Rises the Abyss by Darin Hlavaz

Communion by Bill Suboski

The Apprentice by Sarah Gribble

Above the Ceiling by Dan Allen

The Syklies by Henry Gasko

Treasure by Rebecca Gomez Farrell

X X by Laim Hogan

Weredodo Sleuth by Emily Sorensen

Also includes the winners of the 2018 Bards and Sages Writing Competition:

HIRAETH by Kerri Cadwell

Hyena Woman by Aaron Vlek

By the Stars by Jessica Marie Baumgartner 

That One Time I Broke into a House, Killed the Homeowner, and Took His Family Hostage by J. D. Gordon

 Volume One: ISBN 9781732248977

M by Russell Hemmell

The Way Up, The Way Down by Dennis Mombauer

Dead Over Heels by Theresa Braun

Swim With the Beavers by Robert Allen Lupton

The Wheel of Misfortune by Lillian Csernica

Son of Eve by Melvin Litton

Pacific Wind by Gustavo Bondoni

An Unexpected Nightmare by Jason Constantine Ford

Justice Enough by Eric Lewis

Snow Tracks by Justin Malzac

The Blue Ruin of Vicar Junípero, The Throat of Heaven by Rhoads Brazos



The Eschatologist by Joseph Aiken

Beneath the Summer Moon by Vonnie Winslow Crist

Finder's Keepers by Kelly A. Harmon

Sanguine by Johnathan Shipley

Ambassador to the Meek by Alex Shvartsman

The Eden Project by C.L. Raven