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Dragons, space aliens, demons, AI, celestial sea creatures, gods, portals, or robotic locusts that feed on human flesh. These are just a few of the things you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy. From one story to the next, you will have no idea what to expect. In Volume Two of the annual Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology series, editor Dustin Bilyk brings tales to you that will shatter your speculative fiction expectations while introducing some of the most hard-hitting and evocative short stories on the market today. In this volume, we have included 22 stories from 22 authors. Whether you have an appetite for… A mountaintop melee between a barbarian and a fire-breathing dragon a harrowing, horrific tale about one man’s account of the moon gone missing and a village gone insane, a lighthearted quest about a coward prince trying to prove to his murderous father that he is worthy of the crown a young woman created for murder is prophesized to end her life in sacrifice… but she survives and finds out the truth behind her creation …we have something for everyone. Included are epic, never-before-read short stories from Gustavo Bondoni, Elle Andrews Patt, Katherine Westermann, David L. Updike, William Schwarz, John Forrester, Eliza Langhans, Jeff Sullins, Blake Jessop, Keira Reynolds, Rob Butler, Aaron Beardsell, Dustin Bilyk, and Nick Clements. PLUS, reprints by Mike Morgan, Paul Alex Gray, Marlaina Cockcroft, Avra Margariti, Sydney Paige Guerrero, Adam Jarvis, Austin Worley, and Sam Muller.