Samuel Colabufo’s The Mitigator centers on Joseph "Goody" Goodness, a man who carries a deep psychological scar from his childhood that manifests as an intuitive radar for tracking human rage. When he senses someone about to snap, he moves in to intercept the violence before...

Nehal Gandhi’s The Nonprofit Paradox takes a close look at how charitable giving changes once money passes through institutions that decide how it may be used. Drawing on over twenty years in the social sector across India and the United States, Gandhi says that the...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

In Bullheaded for Success, Dale Strobach looks back on the stubbornness that once caused mistakes and explains how faith gave that same determination direction. A turning point during a college trip to Europe changed the way he understood God’s guidance, leaving him to reconsider what...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

Kritanut Wattana’s After Us follows Owen, a programmer living in a near-future where artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life. Recently laid off and separated from Jordana and their child, Rowan, Owen is alone in his apartment when every screen delivers the same order:...

In Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, when Glen Cantrell leaves the Bay Area for Twain Harte, California, he expects mountain life, not responsibility for keeping a business community afloat. Then he becomes president of the volunteer Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce as...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

Kristina Elyse Butke’s The Step and the Walk, book two in The Darkening Gate series, follows Andresh Zatavier, a magician studying literature at the University of Evandra, where an alchemical text offers a path to defeating death. Determined to pursue the Magnum Opus, a ritual...