Erica Sage

As the stars burn and the wheel turns, Underland Arcana continues to celebrate the four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the ways we find new paths. These are the ways we protect our hearts. These are the ways we illuminate monsters. These are the ways we craft our sigils. Cup, shield, sword, and stick: these are our tools. This is the iconography of the Arcana. Here is the second deck, filled with thirty-two stories celebrating the diversity of our experiences, with contributions from D. Thea Baldrick, Hermester Barrington, Brandon H. Bell, Mary Berman, Ben Curl, Marilee Dahlman, Scott Edelman, Rhonda Eikamp, Elad Haber, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A. P. Howell, Joshua Flowers, H. L. Fullerton, J. Anthony Hartley, Katherine L. P. King, John Klima, Gerri Leen, Avra Margariti, Kimberly Moore, Michelle Muenzler, Christi Nogle, D. T. O'Conaill, W. T. Paterson, Wade Peterson, Mattia Ravasi, Mike Robinson, Erica Sage, M. Shedric Simpson, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Jordan Taylor, Charles Wilkinson, and Eric Witchey.

Saved meets Tim Federle with just a dash of A. S. King in this hilarious and poignant debut about a teen stuck at Jesus camp. It's bad enough that Nick's sister is dead, and, in some bizarre attempt to force him to confront his grief, his parents are shipping him off to Jesus camp. But he's also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who's incredibly annoying for a genius. If arguing with a dead beat poet doesn't qualify him for antipsychotics already, Nick's pretty sure Eden Springs is going to drive him insane. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Worst of all is the PC Box, into which the campers gleefully place daily prayers and confessions. With Jack nagging him to do it, Nick scribbles down his darkest secret--about his sister's death--and drops it in the box. But then the box is stolen, with Nick's secret inside of it. And when campers' confessions start appearing around the camp, Nick is desperate to get the box back--before the world learns the truth about what he did. The truth he can't even face himself. Laugh-out-loud funny, surreal, and insightful, this is an unforgettable novel about the strangeness of life, death, and grief--and the even stranger things people do to cope.

Saved! meets Tim Federle with just a dash of A. S. King in this hilarious and poignant debut about a teen stuck at Jesus camp. It’s bad enough that Nick’s sister is dead, and, in some bizarre attempt to force him to confront his grief, his parents are shipping him off to Jesus camp. But he’s also being followed around by Jack Kerouac, who’s incredibly annoying for a genius. If arguing with a dead beat poet doesn’t qualify him for antipsychotics already, Nick’s pretty sure Eden Springs is going to drive him insane. The campers ride donkeys into the desert, snap selfies with counselors dressed as disciples, and replace song lyrics with Bible verses. And somehow, only Nick seems to find this strange. Worst of all is the PC Box, into which the campers gleefully place daily prayers and confessions. With Jack nagging him to do it, Nick scribbles down his darkest secret—about his sister’s death—and drops it in the box. But then the box is stolen, with Nick’s secret inside of it. And when campers’ confessions start appearing around the camp, Nick is desperate to get the box back—before the world learns the truth about what he did. The truth he can’t even face himself. Laugh-out-loud funny, surreal, and insightful, this is an unforgettable novel about the strangeness of life, death, and grief—and the even stranger things people do to cope.