title: Sideswiped (Off the Map)
author:  Lia Riley 
description: After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, <b>Lia Riley</b> scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence, and a terrible sense of direction. When not torturing heroes (because c'mon, who doesn't love a good tortured hero?), Lia herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about as-of-yet unwritten books, wades through a mile-high <i>TBR</i> pile and schemes yet another trip. She and her family live mostly in Northern California.
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  Sidereal Drift
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  By Ronan Frost
  
  
  Copyright 2017 Ronan Frost
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  A nasal drone pierced Cal’s dreams and brought her to
  
  
  wakefulness, eyes opening to the unlatched jaw of the young man
  
  
  asleep next to her.
  
  
  Well, this is awkward, she thought, sitting up with exaggerated
  
  
  slowness so as not wake the still slumbering form. A suffuse orange
  
  
  glow of sunlight filtered through the coarse weave of the curtains
  
  
  and the sounds of early morning in the city drifted in through the
  
  
  walls. Cal crossed the room and found the pile of clothes discarded
  
  
  hurriedly the previous night and sorted in from out, all the while
  
  
  staying quiet and casting occasional glances towards the bed and
  
  
  the shambles of the sheets only partially covering the man. She
  
  
  found her tag and rubbed her palm against its surface, blurring out
  
  
  the name that had been there, then searching through her clothing
  
  
  with a series of patting motions for a piece of chalk. H