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...

Scribe of the Heart by Floresta Báz is set in 1893 London, where Haley Richardson’s orderly life ends when her father Walter, a bookseller and printer, is imprisoned over debts connected to the powerful Daily Mirror. Removed from her home and placed among families tied...

A World of Slanted Light by Marvin Brauer is a delightfully clever and warm coming-of-age story set in the harsh environment of 1960s coal country in Congress, West Virginia. Marty Barber is a sensitive fifteen-year-old growing up in a town committed to their one industry...

Munyori and Johannes In 72 Hours by Crystal Charlotte (CC) Lane follows the intersecting lives of Munyori “Yori,” a driven PhD student, and Johannes “John,” a Greek American contractor, over a fast-paced three-day period in the American South at the turn of the millennium. Yori...

Inferno by Alan Cohen follows a protagonist who is trying to make sense of herself and her place in the world. At the centre of the narrative is Nancey Reese, a quiet young nurse whose ordinary life slowly opens into something much larger and more...