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An eclectic collection of stories that will keep you turning the page. With stories that span styles, genres, and voices. Each one will keep you engaged.Edited by Cecile Sarruf, the authors include Hailey Piper, Dawn DeAnna Wilson, Magaly Garcia, Susan Breall, VT Dorchester, Susan Breall, Robert Allen Lupton, Paul Attmore, Anthony Peters, Andrew Adams, Monique Gagnon German, Jason Zeitler, Gemma L. Brook, Audra Supplee, Lorna Walsh, Debby Huvaere, Desiree Kannel, Molly Byrne, Jenn Powers, Gary Kidney, Sarah Kaminski, Ed Burke, Anastasia Jill, Abdullah Aljumah.The latest in our annual anthology options.

Before you pick up Book 3, please tell us you''ve already read Book 1 and Book 2. Yes? Good. No? No. Why not? They will only make you feel like you''ve never felt before. Introduce you to worlds you never knew existed. And make you more joyful than you thought possible. Why? Because these are great stories and great writing that simply do not fit neatly in a box.

A cross between Alice in Wonderland and Apocalypse Now, Triggerfish 1-2 (the first novella) is a journey through the Central Highlands of consciousness.

Kitra Vardi s quest for Spanish citizenship turns into an enthralling journey across centuries. To access the Royal Spanish Archives, she must prove her family s roots stretch back before 1492 before the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion tore her ancestors from their homeland.But as Kitra traces her Sephardic lineage to eleventh-century Spain, her present life unravels. Her beloved mentor Bina is dying. Her lover Soli has left. Alone with grief and the ancient wisdom of the Zohar, Kitra s research into her family s past yields mystical encounters with her ancestors and spellbinding journeys through time. As Kitra walks the same path as her foremothers, she climbs toward enlightenment one revelation at a time. Navigating past and present, sacred texts and lived experience, she must piece together not just her family s story, but forge her own way forward as she comes to embrace her identity as a modern Sephardic woman.A luminous exploration of heritage, loss, and the stories that shape us.

This anthology brings together five stories from authors Riley Straub, Susmita Ramani, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Amita Basu, and Jaan Tung. These curated stories explore resilience, ambition, survival, and the human spirit across time, place, and reality itself. From climate-ravaged landscapes and fractured societies to deeply personal journeys shaped by love, betrayal, and identity, each story offers a vivid lens into characters fighting to claim their place in uncertain worlds. Over the Mountains, Into the Plains by Riley StraubAfter a climate-change disaster forces mass southern migration, a father must protect his daughter as they drive away from the cold and build shelter. Years later, his daughter becomes restless and wants out of their cabin, but when a group of men find their location, the family must stick together and fight. The Peacock Gem by Susmita RamaniSet in 1930 India, The Peacock Gem follows the multi-generational saga of two sisters, Dharma and Sasi, chronicling their deeply intertwined lives and children s lives, in which much of their fates hinge on an ancient gold medallion-shaped hair ornament with the form of a gemstone peacock on its face. The narrative explores themes of loss, consequences based on wrong assumptions or mistaken intentions, and redemption. Zigsa s Karma Sutra: Puzzle On by Rimi B. ChatterjeeIn the Antisense Universe, people keep building paradises in the face of tyranny. It s only after they lose everything and vanish from the known world that they build one they can keep. Last Holiday, by Amita BasuCalcutta in the 1990s is sleepy, backwards, and stifling. Two teenage girls one affluent and ambitious, the other uneducated and impoverished prepare to run away together and start life on their own. Fix the Sky by Jaan TungAt the heart of the Fardene Empire, a young man is captured and put on trial by the society s elite for daring to collect four of the five Orbs capable of repairing the mysterious crack in the sky, a feat that many heroes (consisting of mostly their family and friends) had died trying to achieve. Together, these stories form a dynamic and thought-provoking anthology that celebrates endurance, rebellion, and the transformative power of hope even in the face of overwhelming odds.

Dreamers is a lyrical collection of interconnected stories that illuminate the immigrant experience through deeply personal moments of arrival, belonging, and becoming. From whispered hopes carried across oceans to the daily negotiations of identity in a new land, these narratives reveal what is gained, what is lost, and what is carried forward. Through the voices of those who dared to dream of a different life, the book explores family, displacement, memory, and legacy with tenderness and honesty. At its heart, Dreamers is both a tribute to those who journeyed toward uncertainty and a reminder that behind every migration story is a human life shaped by hope.