A dark web dweller, a curious space explorer in a library, a forbidden queer couple seeking new horizons… THE YEAR IS 2099. Prometheus stole fire and gave it to humanity. To this day, we carry it in our hearts: an innate spirit no machine can replicate. Sixteen authors bring you tales of imagined futures, spanning vast worlds and a wide breadth of queer, human, and post-human experiences.

The best-selling Heart2Heart anthology is back again with brand-new short stories from some of your favorite authors. What will our hopeful singles be using the app for this time? Once upon a time, a bunch of authors wondered…could spilling their secrets on Heart2Heart, the dating and community app loved by queer singles around the world, lead to love? Whether it's spilling juicy family gossip, confessing your place in a famous viral photo, wanting to spice up your love life, or admitting you've never been kissed, there's no telling the outcome when H2H is involved.

They started off as fierce adversaries, but now their only chance of finding their way back home lies in each other. Reviled for their parasitic nature, the Augment are a cybernetic species that require organic tissues to process food into usable fuel. Now, their Empire tears itself apart in civil war as the cruel King Taen attempts to put down the rebellion of Lord Mavren, who seeks to end the brutal inequality of the Empire’s social stratification.

Story Summary: Dominic and Jacob contemplate their new bed, old scars, and an unexpected Halloween request from their young human son. Author’s Note: I was originally going to include this fl…

“ … it started off by finding a few floaters in the harbour, but that caused a huge amount of attention in the press. It’s only a theory that they’re linked, but we’ve found six men, almost skeletons, in the past seven months dumped in all sorts of places, all with the same ligature marks and signs of abuse on their backs.”