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

"Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children" collects six classic bedtime stories alongside charming illustrations. Wilde’s children’s stories were first published in a collection in 1888. Elements of them are dark. In the standout “The... Read More

Comedy is derived from badly dealt hands in the dramatic short story collection People Making Danger. An assisted suicide and other realistic magic tricks fill Adam Fike’s farcical short story collection People Making Danger. In “The... Read More