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A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology based in Nashville: Available NOW! 🚀 Editors, Stephen Wright and Chase Stowell🔮 ☄️Issue 6 out now! impossibleworlds.net Also the home of Fan-Fixion! A nonsense podcast

Art for Chapter six of the serialized story "Once Upon a Time in the West" by Michael Swaim

Cover art for Once Upon a Time in the West- by Michael Swaim. A skull with wide horns sticking out either side in a void of aged paper

Impossible Worlds issue I cover. A tiny planet cracked open like an egg with a hand pulling its core out like the yolk

Once upon a time in the West chapter 5 art. A hand holding a short whip with several tails and gold metal tips

Cover art for chapter 5 of Once Upon a Time in the West, by Michael Swaim. A hand holds a short whip with several tails and metal spikes in the tip.

An overweight bearded man with an ill fitting red jacket sitting at a desk, there is a mounted skull with horns behind and above him. Swords and maces and other weapons sit attached to the ceiling, and a shelf flanks either side of the narrow room.

A snail the size of a building on a rock surrounded by lava, in the foreground stand three tiny human figures, and the sky is grey with ash as they marvel at its size

Cover art for issue 6 of Impossible Worlds. A yeti is screaming at a fire pit which is being pelted with kerosene that a smaller child yeti is gleefully spraying. There are clearly human body parts on the grill of the fire pit, and the smoke spells out "Impossible Worlds 6"

A semi-transcluscent space caterpillar type creature , pale green with pink spidery long limbs coming out of its abdomen while shorter green limbs with nubby fingers handle the walking. Through its skin you can see internal organs, and it's face has mandibles on a squishy face with black eyes. Adorable yet terrifying.

Cover art for issue 6 of Impossible Worlds. A yeti is screaming at a fire pit which is being pelted with kerosene that a smaller child yeti is gleefully spraying. There are clearly human body parts on the grill of the fire pit, and the smoke spells out "Impossible Worlds 6"

Screenshot of Patreon subscriber notification.

Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" a woman shrouded in black with suitcases and a hat box in her arms standing in front of a brownstone apartment from which through the covered windows, blue light Is emanating while the sky is overcast.

Every cover from year one of Impossible Worlds. All of them

Cover for the story "The Trial of Eternity" by Ian Fortey with art by Garth von Ahnen. A hand is holding up a cell phone looking up at a skyscraper with a giant crustacean like Kaiju bearing down on the city with tentacles and claws.

Courtroom sketch of a sloppy alien in a suit with Devito proportions sitting next to his human lawyer before the judge.

Cover for the upcoming story "The Trial of Eternity" by Ian Fortey with art by Garth von Ahnen. A hand is holding up a cell phone looking up at a skyscraper with a giant crustacean like Kaiju bearing down on the city with tentacles and claws.

Cover Art for "The Day My Mum Chucked a Bloke From the Government at the Wormhole in Our Garden" by Michelle Ann King, available in Issue 4 of Impossible Worlds. A man with a mustache and suit, having been flung, in a backyard over a small pond, with pink and blue swirls as he is falling into the titular wormhole.

Cover art for "How Does your garden Grow" art by Garth von Ahnen
A skeletal hand holding up a jar of flowers to the blue skyline

Cover art for "The Last Senator to Die" by Garth von Ahnen
A senator's portrait distorted by two white vertical lines blocking his eyes from view

Cover for "Mrs Merlin Defeats the Mad Scientist" by Lydia Sheppard
A woman in shadow, dresses in Edwardian mourning garb with a large hat carrying two suitcases in front of a three story brownstone in New York City with strange blue light coming from behind the windows while the sky is cloudy overhead in stormy portent.

Cover for "The cat who Loved David Duchovny" by James Blakey, available in Impossible Worlds Issue IV: Dessert

Cover for "Run | Time" by Michael Swaim. On the left the word Run with a boy running towards the viewer wearing shorts, t shirt and a baseball cap. On the right, the word Time, a girl in a bubble in a simple dress while scientists look on her in the dark.

Bianca, a black furred feline, sitting on a desk and staring with a bemused expression

Cover art for "Humanizing Rex" by Sean MacKendrick
A man with a black and gold vest and an eye patch holding a dalmatian puppy while rainbow lights that also form the title beam out from a planet behind his head, evoking divine imagery.

Screenshot of the Impossible Worlds Shop page , Issues 3-5 for $5 apiece.

The skull wearing wizard and the pizza delivery girl from the cover of issue II of Impossible Worlds, the wizard is reaching into a coin purse, and the words "our loyal Patrons" are emblazoned in green over him, while "us" is over the pizza delivery girl. Implying that Impossible Worlds exists because of its patrons. Who are mostly cave dwelling skull wearing wizards.

Cover art for Issue I of Impossible Worlds.
A hand reaching over a tablenhaving scooped the yolk out of an egg in a cup, only the yolk is lava, and the eggshell is the earth

Cover art for Issue 3 of Impossible Worlds. A T-Rex with a leather jacket, restaurant apron, and a cigarette standing outside the back door of a brick building next to a triceratops with the same apron carrying trash bags to the dumpster near the rex.

Cover art for "Surrogacy" by Charlotte H. Lee , art by Tom Nel.
A woman holding a baby with a depressed expression on her face, while in the mirror, she is holding a strange alien baby with claws and tentacles

Screenshot of purchase notification from Impossible Worlds Issue V

Cover for Titan's Law - by Chase Stowell. Oil style painting .
A woman with black semi curly hair is seated at a desk with a man on the other side standing with both hands on her desk. In the background a large window shows a planet with a ring looming in the distance.

Bianca. Our head of Marketing. A Black cat doin a tiny blep

Princess Leia staring at Darth Vader