Sometimes the hardest thing to do is face a past you've spent years trying to forget. In Nomad by Cynthia Johnstone, Corey Collins has spent the last decade living alone on twenty-seven acres of land near Sedona, Arizona. At eighteen, she left Phoenix after a...

Unburdened Fulfillment by Manju Mohapatra follows Uma, a widow who lost her husband to COVID-19. As she copes with her grief, she starts to rebuild a family from people whom the world abandoned. Uma takes in a cousin’s widow and son, raises a child orphaned...

M. A. Coupe’s The Cyclist: Carbon Fingerprints follows Alex, a gifted Chicago cyclist riding the Trans-Britain Ultra, an arduous charity race across Britain. An old injury has left Alex with nerve damage that can interrupt an otherwise exceptional performance, yet racing remains the one place...

In The Envelopes, Hasu August draws back the veil on modern Chinese life. Jade Bai begins her career in the city as a nurse, but later trains in personnel. She is married to Deeping Dai, who lectures at the local university, and they share an...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

Are you ready for some short stories that will give you food for thought? In The Diversity Bridesmaid by Lilian George, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Here is a taste of what you’ll find in these pages. The bridesmaid in the title story has a...

What if your entire life, with every regret, every triumph, every ordinary Tuesday, were already shelved in a library? In David Samuel Allen’s A Free Will Manifold, this question haunts Edom Thompson, a pure mathematician stuck on a proof he calls the “Die lemma,” when...

In Linda Annas Ferguson’s What the Mirrors Knew, Anna Grace O’Neill lives alone beside the Ashley River in Charleston after losing her husband and settling into a familiar life. When Grace finds a journal belonging to her Irish grandmother, Aine, an inscription from the grandfather...

Stephen Panus’s novel, The Circles We Carry, is a heart-wrenching and profoundly thoughtful story of a family’s unexpected, deep loss and their harrowing journey through grief in search of a way forward. Jesse Brennan is 17, a junior in Naperville High School in Illinois. He...

Still Yours is a gripping Gothic literary novella by bestselling author Jacob Anthony Rose. A fortnight before Valentine’s Day, Julian Mercer receives an unexpected package without a return address. Tucked beneath the packing slip is an envelope, and Julian recognizes the handwriting of his husband...