Aether Avenue Press

12/06/2024

PRESS UPDATE: Hello, readers and authors! Aether Avenue would like to apologize for the recent hiatus of not publishing. A major event recently occurred (not a bad one!) that had to put our publications on hold; however, we are now back! Sorry again and thank you to all supporters!

10/05/2024

"The Light on Faraway Hill", a short allegorical, surreal novella free for the next five days! Check it out! Paperback will also be discounted soon if you fancy a physical copy afterwards.

"Instantly they broke down the woman’s door and raided the house for Anti-Mice paraphernalia. I cowered in fear at the site of their deeds. They followed only that which they chose to see, and believed what they had invented. Their leader was Owl, and they were inseparable from him. Owl was for t....

09/05/2024

Maura Manning's story, "Tango", has just been released! A beautiful, colorful overture on dancing upon hues of light. Give her an applause!

It was the music, you see. Slithering down alleyways, orange and white and gold. She could see it move through the air…the color. It had always been the color that drew her. Black horns and yellow violins. Colors she had no name for, writing grace notes that seemed to float on the damask breeze. A...

30/04/2024

Free until Friday! "Find Us In The Forest" is a heartwarming, thrilling adventure novel by J.R. Packard. Set in the 1950's, a group of boys from Washington State set out to run away to Alaska.

Find Us In The Forest

22/04/2024

J.R. Packard's latest horror novella, That Which Creeps, is free on Kindle for the next 5 days! About: A group of adults are trapped inside a cabin amidst a foggy blizzard in the middle of Summer. Outside lurks mysterious, deadly creatures. How will they escape?

https://amazon.com/dp/B0CWD9YQ1V

From whence came the beasts--the devils, the demons, the creatures--of the deep (blizzard)? The group knew naught: not of them, the snow, the fog, and the mysterious voices. How would they survive? How could they escape the cabin? Only one thing was for certain: at all costs, avoid those which cr...

21/04/2024

Reminder that we're seeking books!

20/04/2024

Please submit to: https://www.aetheravenuepress.com/

14/04/2024

We're back in full swing with publishing! We're grateful to have just released our latest mind-bending poem, "Void in Sleep", by Gargi Sidana.

An alpha-coexisting ray drooling over the magnetic flux of the brain. The brain that links the magnitude of grief and void. The void is a vacuum or a zero state where life definitely collapses. Pain is a dysfunctional colon of the functional body. A body that slumbers between fantasy and reality. Re...

15/03/2024

James O'Brien's eloquent short story, "My Beautiful Oubliette" is fresh off the press!

I find the dark imperious, tyrannical, ambiguous, infallible but capable of kindness. It has many personalities. During each of the seven days of each week I can see light breach the seams and cracks above and I know how the days pass and the week. I sleep and wake and live in the breach. In it I ca...

14/03/2024

Our anthology, Surrendering To The Surreal, is now free in ebook format on Amazon for the next five days!

Surrendering To The Surreal

13/03/2024

Aether Avenue is proud to announce the release of our first anthology, Surrendering To The Surreal! We want to give a big thanks to all of our contributors and readers. We couldn't have done it without you!

Surrendering To The Surreal

07/03/2024

Want to get a good chuckle out of a hilarious cause-and-effect story? "The Possum And The Plum" will be sure to give you a laugh.

The 1st Day One day in late May, there lay a plum tree in an orchard beside a small knick knack shop. Suddenly, a plum fell from that tree, and the events that followed would go down in history as the greatest mistake ever made. You see, there was a small possum below that tree, and, with the plum i...

06/03/2024

06/03/2024

Part 2 of Mr. Bryan Smith's time-defying, celestial story, "I Hope Yesterday Will Be The First Time We Never Met", has just been published. Check it out!

Sea of Tranquility (the Moon) July 20, 1969 “Oh, cool,” she remarked, flatly. “The Moon.” “We need to talk.” “It’s not you,” she said. “It’s me.” “About our situation.” “It’s a situation now? At least you’re acknowledging…baby steps…pun intended.” “Well…I ...

04/03/2024

Jenna Calloway's thriller, "Ms. Wyld's Ride", will be sure to keep your keen interest!

Patrick held on to the struggling marine biologist, having managed to inject the sedative into his neck, and yearned for his days of white-collar crime. The fourth and fifth elbow strikes, while considerably weaker than the others, still hurt. He braced himself for the sixth, but the man dropped to....

03/03/2024

Tom Folske's latest story, "Bad Compensation", is personally one of the melancholic (in a good way), heart-touching stories on Aether so far. Come take a read!

Oswald Erickson and his nine-year-old granddaughter Cynthia were cruising down the main road of the small town of DeSantis, population: 400, in Oswald’s big, mud-covered pick-up truck. “Alright Cynthia. I think today is the day,” Oswald told his granddaughter. “What do you mean Grandpa?” C...

02/03/2024

Please take a look at Ben Nardolilli's beautiful, yet sad, poem, "Cosmopolis Weather"!

Sandstorms drift through this old utopia of ours, They blanket the gardens and fill in the pools, Our dream of a paradise in the city seems To be receiving a veto from our surroundings It is a rare opportunity to act together at last, We have to come out into the streets for now Because we cannot dr...

01/03/2024

Part 1 of Cathy Tonkin's supernatural thriller, "The Haunting of Oakwood Manor", fresh off the press. Stayed tuned to read part 2!

Part 9 I looked up hauntings in the area and learned that many folks believe that Duluth’s Enger Tower is haunted. While the park is mostly known for its beauty, hiking trails and flowering plants, it can boast one more notable thing – a ghost. Visitors to the park have reported seeing a man on ...

29/02/2024

Part 1 of Cathy Tonkin's supernatural thriller, "The Haunting of Oakwood Manor", fresh off the press. Stayed tuned to read part 2!

Part 1 We bought Oakwood Manor in September of 1997 from Pearl Cornwall, and we moved in on Thanksgiving weekend. Our 12-year-old son, Derek, was excited about his new big bedroom and Griffin and I were thrilled to own this historic house. We Thompsons had a new home. Pearl’s father had built the ...

29/02/2024

Announcing our fourth story by Ms. Valerie Valdez: "Idiots". A heavy, psychedelic and mystical read, but it in the most pleasing of digestible ways.

"No, we don't agree on this." I sigh and let go of his elbow. Fine. Do whatever. I don't care. You can turn it into a crystal if you want. I'm giving up. "Don't be like that, I mean, I'll be fine." I look at him. He's still a bit shaky. Maybe the stone will do him good. Who the f**k knows, they're t...

28/02/2024

Our latest poem by a Ms. Patricia Walsh, "Collective"--one of our most vivid and imaginary ones yet. Check it out below!

Twisted around a cautious allegory Meaning nothing, complicated at zero Burning darlings, attenuated to a fibre Listening to Elvis not an afterthought. Slow pints become the demeanour of the day Depressed afterburn on the mantel-piece Advertising disgrace in one’s own time Handling danger like a r...

25/02/2024

Check out Mr. Michael Lee Johnson's imaginary poem, "Like Zen"!

This version is tacitly the best. I am in the morning sun when the artist arrives. My pair of pajamas sleep in frozen still patterns. I turn my face oriental with my poems. Cherry blossoms, I turn inside out light pink to white, brevity, for a short time then walk alone, then die. I hear the sound o...

21/02/2024

We have recently released a heart-pounding 2-part serial thriller, "Deadlocked", by Rolf Semprebon. Check it out!

At the intersection Axton lights a cigarette and waits for the others. This part of the city has been forgotten for decades; boarded-up buildings, empty lots of overgrown weeds and rusted chain-link fences. The sun at dusk casts an eerie glow on desolate streets, the only other life, several crows o...

16/02/2024

Aether Avenue is looking for short story submissions. No Submission Fee! We love to read any stories, but the more absurd, weirder, the better!

Below is our latest short story release:

I guess I've always known I could travel through time. My first memory was when I was three and Mom caught me drawing on the wall with my crayons. She was so mad. I just stood there, about to cry, wishing I could get away. Suddenly I was outside my house, in the backyard. It was the week before I ha...

14/02/2024

Attention, writers & readers! Aether Avenue is currently seeking out short story submissions for a book collection. (General submissions are still welcome). The theme is "Light" --however you interpret that; but, as always, keep it strange, absurd, surreal!

Link below:
https://www.aetheravenuepress.com/

11/02/2024

Aether Avenue Press is now open for submissions! We are currently accepting short stories, poems, and artwork. We are closed for book submissions, but may open in the future. Let's read/see what you have!

11/02/2024

Welcome to the page of Aether Avenue Press, a press dedicated to publishing the strangest, most experimental, most surreal of fiction and artwork. Come take a gander!

Welcome to Aether Avenue Press, a publisher for the surreal and a haven for the avant-garde in literature. Our press is a curator of dreams, where each publication is a whispered invitation to explore the surreal landscapes of the imagination. At Aether, we celebrate the unconventional, embracing na...