In Dana Diehl’s haunting short story collection "The Earth Room", spectral women are alienated from themselves and others. In “Daughter,” a woman births a floating ghost daughter following a pregnancy where “Things happened... Read More

A young man’s unwise decisions all work out in the end in the good-natured short story collection "The Blueberry Society". Zeebo’s irreverent short story collection "The Blueberry Society" gathers earthy tales about a New York... Read More

Women’s instincts and memories are alchemical in A. J. Ashworth’s unnerving speculative collection "Maybe the Birds". In one tale, a school shooting survivor carves mementos mori for the lost; her relationship fractures with the... Read More

Women, blue-collar workers, and Indigenous people in Mexico respond in hallucinatory ways to the violence of men and abusive authority figures in Elena Garro’s intricate short story collection "The Week of Colors". Incorporating... Read More

Worlds are constructed from tender possibilities in Theodora Goss’s alluring, unforgettable short story collection "Letters from an Imaginary Country". “You’re going to be dead in twenty-four hours. Would you like to save the... Read More

In the linked stories of Jennifer Sears’s uncompromising book "What Mennonite Girls Are Good For", sexual abuse and mental health issues beleaguer a devout family. The stories orbit Ruthie, who spends her 1970s-1980s upbringing in... Read More

Insurgency and sociopolitical revolution link those fighting for freedom in Sharmini Aphrodite’s luminous short story collection, "The Unrepentant". Set in twentieth-century Malaya, the book’s fourteen stories share a tone of... Read More

In Diana Xin’s playful story collection "Book of Exemplary Women", characters navigate relationships and religious mores while enduring hauntings. These short stories focus on family bonds, marriages, and Chinese American families.... Read More