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...

Trudy Jayden Weatherton was born one bright spring day, on April 13, 1955. Her parents, Edra and Jim, were elated at the arrival of their daughter, feeling that their little world was forever changed because of her birth. What they didn’t know was that Trudy...

In A Bitten Plant by Liz Fyne, 29-year-old Camille Baker watches her entire world unravel almost immediately after arriving in a new metropolis. She leaves Montana for the big city and lands a job at Farms Al Fresco, an advanced indoor farming facility. Her new...

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...

Sometimes the biggest life changes begin in the middle of an ordinary day. In You Must Believe in Spring by Steven Hutton, Evan and his girlfriend, Ellen, are trying to figure out their future after discovering that she is pregnant. The news wasn’t planned, and...