Megan Howell’s "Softie" is a series of thirteen short stories which plumb the harrowing struggles and dark corners of womanhood and girlhood as “all hell breaks loose” with regularity. Firm and unflinching, the stories navigate... Read More

A triumphant antidote to the falsities spread about women’s aging, "Wise Women" is a solace- and life-giving collection of fairy and folk tales. Knowing that older women in beloved tales are too often crones and villains, inculcating... Read More

Vicky Cowie’s sweet fairy tale book "Tales from Muggleswick Wood" ventures into a magical world of gnomes, pixies, and stink-resistant moles. A grandmother tells a bedtime story, each dedicated to one of her five grandchildren during... Read More

In the bold, experimental stories of Juan Carlos Reyes’s "Three Alarm Fire", reading is a riddle that results in salvation. Shifting in register from abject horror to cool irony and featuring slippery, compelling details, this is a... Read More

Marguerite Sheffer’s short story anthology "The Man in the Banana Trees" centers on wreckage and restoration. Many of the stories evince interest in the psychology behind science. In “Rickey,” a teacher struggles to regulate a... Read More

In Anita Felicelli’s stunning short story collection "How We Know Our Time Travelers", technology and the supernatural are rival routes to understanding time, loss, and memory. These speculative stories are set in California in the... Read More

A precise and celebratory anthology, "The Neurodiversiverse" treats differences as strengths in science fiction settings. Edited by Anthony Francis and Liza Olmsted, "The Neurodiversiverse" is a science fiction anthology featuring short... Read More

Celebrating idiosyncratic lives with satire and wit, "A Good Day" is a diverse and enjoyable short story collection. Radu Guiaşu’s peculiar and humorous short story collection "A Good Day" combines dialogues, emails, letters, and... Read More