Even Cozier Cosmic

At the end, when the last star dies and the cold begins to seep in, what will be the totality of our accomplishments? What will have been the point? And will anyone notice that we're gone? If the true terror at the center of cosmic horror is the vast indifference the universe has for us, does that mean the closest thing we have to any sort of compassionate connection is . . . our cats? Ah, we may be doomed.

But, in the interim, perhaps there may still be some spark that can illuminate the grace and compassion that persists against the vast endlessness of unrelenting emptiness. Come with us, then, as we teeter along that fine line of stark raving madness . . .

Even Cozier Cosmic contains 30 stories of the horrors that echo beneath our words, that slither in the corner of our vision, and that linger just inside the door, waiting for us to return to the scene of the crime. These are the horrors of indifference, inconsequence, and inevitability. There are cats, things that look like cats, and stories without cats at all.

Edited by Mark Teppo and Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito. Stories and poems are by Kate Ristau, Rachel Ashcroft, Devan Barlow, Peter Damien, Matthew Ross, Erik Grove, Basile Lebret, L. E. Daniels, Kevin Wetmore, Elad Haber, Phoenix Bourgeois, Luke Elliott, Jon Lesser, Tyler Battaglia, Maxwell I. Gold, Chris J. Karr, Buffy Mitchell, Andrew S. Fuller, Megan Lee Beals, John Klima, Brian U. Garrison, Daniel David Froid, Ellis Bray, Jessie Kwak, Tania Chen, Margo Pecha, Ngô Bình Anh Khoa, Ben Curl, Paul Jessup, Simone Cooper, J. B. Kish, and Jonathan Wood.