Rei Rosenquist

"It's your time to shine, Mag." Exile means hot winds. Dust and desert sand. A desperate need for water...and crossing kilometers of wasteland to find it. And then, in order to get those life-giving water packs and well diggers, sneaking past the armed guards of the district. Magnet, determined to shine bright and prove trustworthy to their leader in exile, takes along brand-new recruit Tie on a mission for water on an insufferably hot day. Only...

Unity Fest in District Three. That one special day when everyone packs the dirty streets, concrete wall to ugly concrete wall, and forgets their troubles.Only translators knows better. Tensions rise in festival times. Fights break out. Miscommunication abounds.Things can go sideways fast.As Analys roams the crowded streets, a word jumps out: DADDY stitched on a baseball cap in neon green.Well, shit. "Daddy" spells big trouble. Analys goes for cover.A...

Coming out really threw a wrench in Jordy and Lyle's relationship. Becoming human refugees in an alien organization called the Anti-Scouts made it worse. Can a simple game set things right? Or will virtual reality make reality worse? Jordy logs in to the Dream Trust Test find out.

A Companion to The Grey Stride. --- Ible wants to feel alive. But in District 6, the sun never shines, the buildings clutter out the sky, and life hides in the cracks between things. At the suggestion of a trusted colleague, Ible visits The Grey Stride, a place of dirt, decay...and the drug Tranquility. Rumor says Tranquility opens up the cracks where life hides, and lets you see inside. But once you do... If I'm not alive or dead, what am I? By...

A debate rages. It is between science and the earth. Between the west and the people of the land. Bones were uncovered. Should they have remained buried? Do they belong to the university or the people's from which those bones grew? Are the remains the Kennewick Man or the Ancient One? Does the soul who once inhabited those bones even recall? Only a journey through the fogs of time and the fires of research will tell.

Grungy space station Suptum One.Ridiculous rumors and a ridiculous bounty lead hunter Redical Jones to a seedy bar.Commotion starts. Jones, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, makes a move to leave. A voice calls out."Just let me get to the bar a minute!"Can it be? The voice of the bounty? What are the odds?

The biggest festival in Stratford, North Carolina approaches: a Midwinter celebration of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. In the midst of the excitement, the magical powers around town swell. And Chandra--a transwoman witch in hiding--once again finds it impossible to hide. "This year will be different," Chandra says to her tabby, a feral cat who one day appeared out of nowhere. Just then, a friendly stranger by the name of Apple appears at...

The wolves come every night. Right after dusk. They cannot be defeated, only deterred. As the sky becomes purple-gray, we gather together in our rustic homes. The Master Lock-Maker seals all the doors with their magical protection. So long as you are behind a Locked door before dusk, you survive. Anyone who delyas will get Locked out. Today, foolishly, I've delayed.

Jordin and Pepper lay lazily in a park when the lights go out. All of them. A blackness opens up that fear fills with every nightmare."Could be a power outage.""There's no light for hundreds of miles."The city tries to stay calm. On every mind, a single question arises. Will the light ever come again? And if it does, what ruin will it reveal?Rei Rosenquist writes the Broken Circle stories from a dark place, holding a black hope close to a faintly...

Little Red wears her riding hood as she enters the old forest called the Brood. In her basket, she carries meat pies to eat with Grandmother. In her heart she holds Father's warning of the wolves. But, the pack doesn't bother her.Why?What secrets lie in the shadows of the Brood?