Adam J. Spencer

PRAYPREY Animation ⋄ Fantasy After a zealot purges her city, a newly orphaned mantid girl must carry its last clutch of fourteen eggs across a dying world, hunted by her own kind and a sentient rot that feeds on death, wielding mercy as her only weapon.

A PALE HOLLER Drama ⋄ Horror The holler wants what the world don't — the ones we stop holding. Forty years after it took her sister, a Blue Ridge woman assures her dying brother his girl is safe on that same mountain, never admitting even to herself that her own grieving is what loosened the hold.

PRAYPREY: CYCLE BREAKER Animation ⋄ Fantasy Haunted by the accidental slaughter of a living city, a mantid warrior must lead a fractured vanguard to heal her world's remaining colossal Titans using mercy instead of violence, before an ancient, sentient rot consumes all reality.

NO THRONE ROOM Horror ⋄ Science Fiction The asteroid was an egg. As its terrain-mimicking hatchlings migrate toward the Rockies, consuming everything in their path, a doomsday prepper — finally right — and the estranged daughter visiting his compound must survive by the migration's only rule: don't be interesting.

KERES THRESHOLD Mystery ⋄ Science Fiction A grieving physicist whose father's suicide uncovers forty years of killing witnesses to keep reality from breaking has seventy-two hours to continue his arithmetic — or refuse it, and face what he was holding back.