Anne Shaw Heinrich's House of Teeth is set in the small town of Poulson, where the ending of one marriage begins pulling several families into the same orbit. Judy Saunders spends years trapped in a bitter relationship with truck driver John, while he quietly builds...

Kira McCloud sells herself as a brilliant and successful decluttering guru with her “sunshine test” in Jenny Hogan's How to Clean Your Life with Sunshine, but her personal life and spaces are far from organized. On her plate are an unfinished book deal, a threatening...

In Ali Hamdoun’s Habracadabrah, after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Shinobu stays alive way beyond his expected lifespan. This is in the care of Seiren, who moves him to an isolated forest home where his damaged body requires constant treatment so he can keep...

Happisad Memories by M. P. B. Clairette is the story of a woman whose life falls apart after she loses her baby to stillbirth. She goes back home carrying a kind of grief that nobody around her really understands. People say the wrong things, some...

Rick Lenz's Hello, Rest of My Life is the story of a man who suddenly finds himself traveling 47 years into the past. Daniel "Danny" Maytree has lived a life full of contradictions. However, things get even more complicated after he unexpectedly wakes up in...

Hemlock Reefs by Darice Fetcher opens in a future where the Earth’s surface has been destroyed by war, climate collapse, and human ambition. Humanity now lives far below the ocean, protected by vast living walls known as the Hemlock Reefs. These reefs permit only approved...

Valerie Allen’s Holiday Prankster is a short story that follows Alissa and her boyfriend, Randy, as they head to a holiday dinner with his family. It’s the first time she’ll be meeting them, and she’s nervous because it’s important. On the way over, she becomes...

Lizzy Chapman has barely come to terms with her mother's death when she receives more bad news: her father has cancer. She tries to recover her late mother's ring, which fell into a pond some time ago, hoping to give him a little happiness to...

Hollywood Tales From The Outer Fringe by William Karl Thomas is a collection of 12 short stories that follow the lives of people serving A-list Hollywood celebrities during the 1950s-60s. A security guard on Hollywood Boulevard finds much in common with a Japanese gardener. An...

Heart of Evergreen by Mary L. Schmidt follows Dmitry Ivanov, a Russian defector and former intelligence operative. Dmitry escapes to the U.S. with critical knowledge of a rogue oligarch network planning to infiltrate strategic sites in Colorado. He provides evidence of espionage involving microchips hidden...