Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch…

"Nicole Kurtz has created a gritty, noir science fiction world with characters you want to spend time with, but you also don't want to piss them off. If I end up with a laser-blast in my chest, I want Fawn Granger investigating the murder."–John Hartness, Author of the Quincy Harker series Suffering PTSD from her past cases, Inspector Regulator Fawn Granger is exhausted with her job and she can't wait to move to the Southwest Territories, when another death violation drops into her lap.World famous Dr. Leonard Cho, obsessed with cybernetics, is killed.Fawn and long-term partner, Briscoe Baker, have investigated strange cases before, but nothing like this one. Potential witnesses value their tech over the death of Dr. Cho, making the case difficult to solve.Things become even more challenging when an organization, guilty of human rights violations, becomes involved, and a hacker gets their hands on a list of undercover...

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch... * Also appears in the 2012 anthology, The Fierce Reads Anthology.

Cyborg Cinder has always been alone in the world. When she learns that she's going to be adopted, her whole life changes - she gets an all-new family, complete with a mostly-absent father, two step-sisters and an unwelcoming stepmother. How will she cope with being the only cyborg in the family? This story is a prequel to the futuristic fairytale Cinder, by Marissa Meyer.

Thirty ultra-short science fiction stories from Rich Larson, award-winning author of Ymir, Annex, and Tomorrow Factory. The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches collects the best of Rich Larson's flash fiction, stories told in a thousand words or less, into a fusillade of futures. Within these pages, you'll journey from a biolab bunker under the earth to a fungi forest on an alien planet, from possible tomorrows to the heat death of the universe. You'll encounter emulated minds, rented bodies, hijinks in deep space and eldritch horror at the seaside. Thirty new worlds await inside The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches. Just be careful: reality is not what it seems, and some glitches are more dangerous than others.

Recurring nightmares, breast-feeding professors, choking children and late-night intruders populate this first story collection by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. Rich in dysfunction, madness and menace, Glitches reveals the dark underworld that lies beneath, and sometimes pierces, the façade of modern bourgeois society.