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

Capturing the imagination with a welcome dark tone, "Animal Husbandry" is a satisfying short story collection. The short stories in Jeff Fleischer’s collection "Animal Husbandry" range from fun and bizarre to thought-provoking and... Read More

Eloquent, nuanced, and containing wry and poignant humor, the short story collection "Heart-work" illuminates Northeastern lives across the decades. About intimacy and interconnection, Roberta Silman’s short story collection... Read More

The intimate short stories of Rilla Askew’s "The Hungry and the Haunted" illuminate lives touched by grief, guilt, and social change. Set in Oklahoma and the American Southwest during the 1970s and told across multiple perspectives,... Read More