Summer in the City A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction

Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City.

The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.

The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woolen shroud over the city, while the overextended air conditioners groan as they struggle to provide any small relief to the inhabitants. Hydrants are opened for neighborhood children to cool off, while lucky families escape to the beaches and countryside looking for an occasional breeze.

But heat is not the only thing impacting humanity's comfort.
The Las Vegas heat is on for a soul purchaser who can find a seller in the city of sin... Sentient ammonium nitrate considers a change of state during the long sunny days in Beirut... Two American social media influencers travel to Tokyo and find more than summer humidity... A young man in Liverpool befriends a potential lover who is not the man he expects... Summer in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction is the next anthology in Ruadá n Books’ In the City series, full of stories set in various metropolises around the world during the hot, hazy, and lazy days of summer.

The heat can bring out the worst in all of us.

Boston-based artist and writer Anna Koon has published articles for a variety of periodicals, one poem, two screenplays, and a children’ s book entitled Willamina, Queen of the Worms. She is the founder and director of an educational series presented to various arts organizations throughout Massachusetts. Additionally, she works as a creative coach and editor. Anna lives at the top of what was once the women’ s quarters of a Victorian mental institution with her husband and two whippets, Zeta Puppis and Nimble Nimbus. Learn more about her @ www.a2n2.net. Former technologist and world traveler, R. B. Wood is an MFA graduate from Emerson College and the founder/CEO of Ruadá n Books. Along with his editing passion, R. B. is a writer of speculative dark thrillers. Mr. Wood has had numerous titles published and is currently working on his next thriller. His shorter, weird stories have appeared in multiple anthologies and online magazines.

R.B. and his wife Tina adore animals and are self-professed “ crazy cat people.”

You can find him online via rbwood.com and on most social media platforms.