In these five short stories, ordinary and extraordinary humans (and one alien) must find the spark to move forward—out of bad situations, or in the face of catastrophic change. In "Ilene's Box," an otherworldly...

If your heart lies in Ireland while your body pines in the USA, if you delight in quirky, madcap tales, and if you really love food, look no further."Banoffee Pie and Black Pudding" takes you on a dangerously...

Everyone knows high school grows drama like mold in a petri dish. Bullying? Check. Vicious rumor mill? Check. Draconian caste system? Check.But at Rainy Valley High, one outcast girl starts believing...

At last, Evan Sumner-Beauville achieves his life-long dream: retiring with Mac, his husband of 60 years, in a place unlike any other--a space station orbiting Earth. A one-way trip, to be sure, but such...

On Gull Island in the cold North, Eithni awaits Winter Solstice with pride, resentment, and fear. All signs point to a Taking year. And Eithni, chosen to enter the chamber of the gods, prepares to leave...

Set in Scotland, Ireland, and the Pacific Northwest, these five stories share three things: a little rain, a little fantasy, and a lot of heart.In "Sidewynd," Sky Patel balances life between Edinburgh...

When Thalassa's Children—the mer-like, genderless protectors of the ocean—experience the trapped and suffocating death of one of their own, a single member chooses to take action. Against the wishes of...

As a half-Wyndling, Sky Patel already balances with one foot in her beloved Edinburgh and one in the magical Wynd, a realm just on the other side of any Old Town alley (if you know how to get there).Now...

Jessamyn and her grandmother, Marie, return to the Isle of Skye for one purpose only: to lay Granmarie's personal ghosts to rest.But confronting old memories of her lost love sends Granmarie into an odd...

Born of two worlds but important to neither, Sky Patel balances life between her beloved Edinburgh and its mirror in the faerie realm known as 'the Wynd.' But everything changes with the retirement of...

Delaney Greenough loves being a magical Healer—and hates the expectations that come with the rest of the Greenough legacy. Tired of feeling like her family doesn't see her, and uncomfortable with these...

In the Pictish kingdom of Cait, human stone-carver Eithni and her fey lover, the deer-woman Sable, survive in exile—even if they chafe at the need to hide their true selves from the people of Cenn River....

Once, fey Hartkin Sable leapt from her realm to another to save the woman she loved. Now, Pictish mortal Eithni must do the same--to save her lover's brother, and fulfill Sable's promises to The Daylight...

An otherwordly visitor goes on a deeply personal mission to a pet store.But not for the reason you think..."[Alexandra Brandt's] stories always seem to be filled with truth and a gentleness that is hard...

In 1815 England, Eleanor Kingsley studies the effects of Ars Magica under her uncle, despite its unsuitability for a young lady of the gentry. At the dawn of the Romantics, Ars Magica--the power of poetry...

"You learn to live moment by moment, in a world like mine. Time as an entity begins to lose meaning, and even marking the hours by the old pink plastic wall clock—a relic I brought with me from my old...

"I stopped being me at approximately 4:30 PM today.The words of a crazy person. That's me, Ellen Wright. So crazy, so suddenly, that on my way out of Ye Goode Drop after my Saturday study session, I waved...

Once part of a demon-hunting duo, Soldier Eva Santoro still reels from losing her pastor partner to a moment of doubt. The last thing she wants: another Devoted finding her and bullying her into taking...

When sixty-eight young women must give themselves as "tokens of peace" to the warriors of Chal Duresta, aging midwife Mure struggles to protect them all—her daughters in name, if not in body.Protect them...

When you ask a bunch of professional writers to send in stories to a Pulphouse Fiction Magazine anthology called Snot-Nosed Aliens, you get a bunch of really, really strange stories. Perfect.Known for...

Forget the old adage that cautions against wishing. The sixteen stories in this latest Fiction River contain just the right amount of heart, magic, pathos, and even hope. From a daughter hoping to save...

Humans prove great fodder for fiction. But what about the universe of possibilities offered by the nonhuman protagonist? The eighteen daring humans of Fiction River’s latest volume explore just that....

Love. An essential and important part of the human experience. And in Feel the Love, editor Mark Leslie takes readers on a journey through the various forms of that powerful emotion. From the heartwarming...

Piece by piece, her scattered consciousness slowly coalesced. No, re-formed. Re-collected.Here, a name: Cherie Levinson.Here, a flash of memory: long limbs sprawled on ugly linoleum floor, a crimson stain...

Elliot Reyes, nomadic and non-binary, never stays in one place too long...and once they leave somewhere, they never return. But Elliot never once regretted this strange compulsion...until now.One misty...