Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers o...

The seeds of Serenity were planted in F.S. Yousaf's last collection of poetry, Sincerely. Struck by inspiration and overwhelmed by the response of dedicated fans, Yousaf wanted to continue this journey in a new collection. While tales of longing, uncertainty, and loss flow through each poem, Yousaf artfully captures the eternal question of how to face pain with courage and quiet resilience.Featuring 140 poems and accompanying illustrations, Serenity is the...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette de Bodard, Naomi Kritzer, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson, Jay Lake, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, and many more!

Breathe.You have been in this battleground for too long.Step aside, scream, shout, cry or laugh.This book is the safe space whereemotions don’t need to behidden behind closed door.Feel as much as you like.This life is too long,to keep it all inside.

Now revised and expanded with new poems, this raw and poignant collection takes readers on a journey through the winding currents of self-discovery, transformation, and healing, culminating in a glistening sea of love and redemption.the love that is meant for youwill always find you -the riveralways findsthe sea.— inevitableEmory Hall's debut poetry collection, Mad...

A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an unsupportive family, drawing from autobiographical experiences of the poet’s life.I Don’t Want To Be Understood is a work of resistance against the conventional trans narrative, and a resistance against the idea that trans people should have to make themselves clear and understandable to others in other to deserve human rights. This is a compelling, urgent col...

Tiny nuggets of wry observations in haiku form by an animal lover. Okay, to be honest, more than a few frustrated observations by this same animal lover. Yes, indeed, there is a pile of parental advice to these dogs and cats--which the creatures completely ignore. Then, of course, the cats and dogs must butt in with their own opinions, also spoken in haiku style. All delightfully decorated with animal art by Roxanna Groves.

⭐Campfire and Urban legends stories VOL 2⭐⭐23 Spooky, Funny , Bedtime and Campfire Stories.⭐Amid the flickering embers of a starry campfire, softly spoken stories awaken the night's shadows.where the line between reality and imagination blurs, and the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary.Step into the chilling world where the most innocent of stories reveal secrets that should remain hidden. These eerie legends will haunt your dreams, make your heart race, and...

A collection of short writings while I was taking part in a summer course in Kyoto. An easy but mindful read for a beautiful summer day.

This book of poems is meant to make the reader both laugh and think. Very human themes are explored in word play and invite the reader to view the common in an uncommon way. Spiritual values are both snuck in and also bluntly displayed. Most importantly, the author has fun while she writes and would like the reader to be able to laugh at some serious topics.

Introductionto the ones who remember what can't be heldThere is a place where voices echo long after they're gone.Not in sound, but in sensation—a flicker behind the eyes, a chill in the bones,a name you whisper without meaning to.This book was born in that place.Not from clarity, but from ache.From the quiet rooms we carry inside,where grief doesn't scream, it waits.Where sil...