The world of tomorrow holds wonders unlike anything humanity has ever seen! But only for those lucky few. Alicia, a runaway New Woman, comes to small-town Wheeling, West Virginia, and gets entangled with Jess and Dale, throwing their lives of pointless work and drug-fueled virtual reality into chaos. Meanwhile, truths are uncovered of the nation's rewritten history—truths powerful corporations would rather leave hidden. Rural cyberpunk of frustrated ambitions mixed with life-altering changes and cyber-mystery! REVIEWS ​"Johnny Mnemonic goes Millennial. Cyberpunk is not dead, and Erica Satifka is its queen." (Silvia Moreno Garcia, award-winning editor of She Walks in Shadows) "Busted Synapses is the cyberpunk cry of Generation Screwed—a shrewd look at transhumanism through the lens of insurmountable debt and a thoroughly dehumanized workforce. A stunning novella from a unique voice in the literary...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“Lucky Girl” by Erica L. Satifka“The Embalmer” by Helen Marshall (reprint)“These Bones Aside” by Lora Gray“Red String” by Cassandra Khaw (reprint)

The apocalypse can take many forms. Possibly our end will come by way of an addictive cell phone game that manipulates its users into a crowd-sourced mass murder. Or perhaps our downfall involves aliens drugging us into bliss and then taking it away. Maybe it'll be technological redundancy that leaves loved ones without a purpose, or corporations replacing the natural world with creatures more amenable to market pressure.All these apocalypses and many more can be found in Erica L. Satifka's debut collection, which gathers together twenty-three short stories from the past decade.

"Had Philip K. Dick lived through riot grrrl and the collapse of the America's industrial economy, STAY CRAZY would be his memoir. Erica Satifka is a prophet."—Nick Mamatas, author of SENSATION and I AM PROVIDENCE."Stay Crazy is dark and intense sci-fi with a twist, in turns disturbing, amusing, and enlightening. It's not a book that fits into tidy genre boxes, so kudos to Apex for publishing a book that is that complicated—and good."—Beth Cato, Nebula Award-nominated author of DEEP ROOTSAfter a breakdown at college landed Emmeline Kalberg in a mental hospital, she's struggling to get her life on track. She's back in her hometown and everyone knows she's crazy, but the twelve pills she takes every day keep her anxiety and paranoia in check. So when a voice that calls itself Escodex begins talking to Em from a box of frozen chick nuggets, she's sure that it's real and not another hallucination. Well ... pretty sure.An evil entity is taking over the employees of Savertown USA,...