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Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
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Read an Excerpt From Blood Debts
Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult || Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history.
Read an Excerpt From Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister
Contemporary Fantasy || When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. She soon learns the new voice isn’t even hers, it’s the ghost of her estranged grandmother.
Read the First Two Chapters From Lilliam Rivera’s Never Look Back
Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult || A modern retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice.
Crispin’s Model
Contemporary Fantasy, Dark Fantasy || A contemporary Lovecraftian tale of art, obsession, and elder gods.
Red
Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy || A young man grieving for his lost sister steps into the world of their favorite board game, in a desperate attempt to find her.
Dune Time
Contemporary Fantasy, Magical Realism || Isolated in the desert with his brother, Hasan learns that there is more to the legends of the dunes than he initially believed.
Freedom is Space for the Spirit
Contemporary Fantasy || "Freedom is Space for the Spirit" by Glen Hirshberg is a fantasy about a middle-aged German, drawn back to Russia by a mysterious invitation from a friend he knew during the wild, exuberant period in the midst of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, he begins to see bears, wandering and seemingly lost.
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy, Magical Realism || Hannah and Melanie: sisters, apart and together. Weather workers. Time benders. When two people so determined have opposing desires, it's hard to say who will win—or even what victory might look like. This stunning, haunting short story from rising star Alyssa Wong explores the depth and fierceness of love and the trauma of family.
Please Undo This Hurt
Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy || Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral…it feels like the way to win at life is to care the least.
That's not an option for Dominga, an EMT who cares too much, or her drinking buddy Nico, who just lost his poor cat. Life hurts. They drink. They talk:
Nico's tired of hurting people. He wants out. Not suicide, not that — he'd just hurt everyone who loves him. But what if he could erase his whole life? Undo the fact of his birth? Wouldn't Dominga be having a better night, right now, if she didn't have to take care of him?
And when Dominga finds a way to do just that, when she is gifted or armed with a terrible cosmic mercy, she still cares enough to say:
I am not letting him have this. I am not letting Nico go without a fight.
All the Birds in the Sky, Chapter 3
Contemporary Fantasy || Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.
Read Chapters 1-4 of Two Serpents Rise
Contemporary Fantasy || Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, Crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.
All the Birds in the Sky, Chapter 2
Contemporary Fantasy || Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.
All the Birds in the Sky, Chapter 1
Contemporary Fantasy || Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.
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