Iysh by Greg Price begins with Leo Butlion, a medical student in 1940s Koblenz, when the German state turns its full attention to Jewish families. After a narrow escape from deportation, he survives by passing as a non-combatant inside the German military, using medical training...

You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel by Douglas Robinson is a reimagining of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that moves between stage script, campus novel, and literary commentary. The book begins with a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, presented as a college production that immediately foregrounds...

Moonlight Desires by David Tocher is a retelling of the popular Cinderella fairytale, as well as that of Spider Princess Kipira, which are both rooted in folklore, mythology, and literary traditions. It follows Aurelia, a nineteen-year-old girl who lives as a servant in her father’s...

Elco Parks by Sandro Laudadio is one of the most unusual stories I have read in a while, and it resonates with its themes and atmosphere. The setting is Vancouver in 2008, where a new religion has taken hold in the belief that glacial striations...

Lonely World by Megan Hale begins in nineteenth-century London. A school outing ends in disaster when a carriage is deliberately wrecked, leaving a young girl named Cristal blind and quietly reclassified by the Crown. Removed from her family, she is absorbed into a state system...

Rhythm's First Lady by Long Temple follows Claire and Oliver, a newly married couple learning how to hold their relationship together while taking on public responsibility. Claire is starting her own architecture firm, and Oliver is becoming more involved in leadership at Mount Zion, a...

Mancala Moon by Asa Bowers is a fantasy about breaking a cursed cycle of pain. The story is about grief, the overshadowing presence and influence of ancestral ties, and inheritance. Micah is a 21-year-old struggling with the loss of his parents. He can’t come to...

Sharp Turns Ahead: Ventures Beyond the Beaten Path by Daniel P. Douglas is a curated collection of short fiction spanning speculative futures, quiet human moments, moral puzzles, and imaginative what-ifs. Organized into four sections, the book guides readers through stories that range from science fiction...

Lyric Ginsberg’s Into the Breath of the Wind follows a man slowly navigating complicated relationships, including Adriana, Hunter, and Serene. The story shifts from inward reflection to emotional closeness and dreamlike scenes where imagination and reality begin to overlap in subtle, simple ways. The narrator...

When King Madrick I and Queen Fionella of Masor decided to walk into the woods to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary, they had no idea it would be their last. The news of their demise, a few weeks later, leaves their kin—Prince Madrick II and...