Early ReviewersRichard Pettigrew

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs

Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of crimes and their punishments. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.

• Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.
  


• Community Of Peers: A foreigner wanders into a remote village just before a convicted criminal is about to be punished and is asked to throw the first stone.
  


• Form Seven Alpha: A city resident is caught breaking the law and is given the choice between one of five punishment options.
  


• Conscience Cleaners: A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed.
  


• Blackorwhite: A lactose intolerant inmate tells his story to, and befriends, the doctor assigned to look after him.
  


• Conveyor: Arthur Montague is on trial for genocide and war crimes...again, and again, for eternity.
  


• Soon The Sentence Sign: A bar fight turns into a brush with the colonial AI driven judicial system.
  


• Bunny Racing: Two bunnies race, but one of them has been eating a special carrot from the forbidden forest to help him run faster.
  


• The Only Punishment: A street-hardened criminal is forced to live his crimes from the perspective of his victims.
  


• Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.