Everything Is Better With Velociraptors

A short story collection where all of the stories are interconnected, this follows the Dominican diaspora Beléns family across multiple generations. Stylistically realist but also magical, this mosaic story explores mental health, identity, machismo… and of course family

Lanie Stones has a complicated life, to say the least. As the daughter of the Royal Assassin and Chief Executioner of Liriat, her career path should seem clear… except she has an unusual gift for necromancy and an even more unusual, quite literal allergy to violence that has kept her isolated to her family’s manor. When her parents are murdered, she might be about to lose that crumbling wreck of a home as well… and that’s just the beginning of her problems.

Lydia longs to try nearly every food under the sun, but particularly the ones her Japanese father liked to eat. Unfortunately for her, she inherited her British mother’s vampirism and can only digest blood… and trying to source fresh pig’s blood in London is proving to be more of a challenge than she expected. She wants to be an artist, not a hunter of men, but she is lonely in her windowless flat… and always hungry.

A plague has swept over the world, one that affects how its victims perceive reality itself. To them, the world has monsters lurking around every corner, and packs of armed survivors roam… and those things may or may not be true. Spencer has been cured of the disease, but he would rather stay inside the rehabilitation facility than face how the world has changed. But when a fellow inmate wants help finding her old crew, he has a chance at redemption… or finding out that he’s just made things worse.

While Hunter Yee’s aim is perfect when he has a bow in his hands, everything else in his life is decidedly not, thanks to the past mistakes of his family. He longs to run away, but stays for his little brother… and the new girl at his high school–Luna Chang. Struggling against her parents’ expectations, Luna falls for Hunter hard, though their families are bitter enemies, and magic is afoot…

Eddie Morales is a low-level R&D guy at an agricultural biotech form based in Boise, Idaho. The last thing he’s expecting is to be dispatched to a tiny town in South America because the press is claiming that the experimental potatoes they’ve developed are causing some very weird medical issues. Eddie’s hopes for a quick and simple resolution are quickly dashed, and soon he stumbles across a conspiracy that reveals the dark side of his company and what they’ll do to make their potato supreme…