ROAR Volume 8

Paradise can be the stark natural beauty of our own world; it can be the connections we have with the people we love; it can be a moment in time. Paradise can be a place we're seeking or a place that we didn't realize we already had until it started to slip away. It can have a dark side. Even shining science-fiction utopias can come with a price. Read this book and take a journey through eighteen different visions of paradise-beginning with the personal and natural, traveling through the societal and technological, and all the way out to the supernal and divine. A great book can heal you when you're hurting, give you an escape that you desperately need, or even rekindle a lost spark of hope. Let this book be a small piece of paradise for you. Contents: Northern Delights by Madison Keller Flying Back to Paradise by Jelliqal Belle Personal History by Tim Susman The Lion Sleeps by Frances Pauli Tucked Away by E. S. Lapso When Pigs Fly by Amy Fontaine Funnel Dresses by Priya Sridhar A Christmas Tale For The Disenchanted by Mark Blickley Bite The Apple by Christopher Shaffer Lonesome Peak by John Giezentanner When the Milk Men Come by Searska Greyraven Nor'Killik by Matt Doyle We Are One by Thurston Howl Lucid by Nicholas Hardin Castle Phoenix by Bill Kieffer Kypris' Kiss by Slip Wolf Behesht by Dwale Hope For the Harbingers by Allison Thai Cover art by Teagan, Edited by Mary E. Lowd