Category: Fiction

Alice’s father wants to kill the snake he finds in a crate of bok choy. But Alice sets the snake free into their family home, one more secret for its rotten walls to keep—until, finally, they can’t hold any more.

Liz and Owen jump at the chance to get away for a week to housesit in suburbia—but there’s something… strange…about the mirror in the hall.

Eliza’s mother was a talented artist without much time for family—until she died. Now, she needs Eliza for her last shot at fame, whatever the cost. “The Scumbling” is a haunting tale of ghosts, family, and broken love.

Adam keeps his grandmother’s restaurant afloat by serving sins illegally purchased from a nearby prison—but when a customer sends back a dish, Adam is faced with questions he’s not sure he wants to answer.

Alice meets a man who loves languages, who consumes them as one would a delicious meal. She’s happy to teach him the Yiddish she knows—but he wants more. “Banhus” is about language, conquest, and finding freedom.

A solar panel was malfunctioning in Cluster 4, Quadrant 6 of the Prudhoe Array. Measuring approximately three hundred miles across and hovering one thousand feet

Esther and Chaviva are best friends who find themselves in direct competition for an arranged match with an off-world boy. Is a happily ever after possible?

I been wid dis woman since she was small, and now is like we shell casing break in two, in three.  First ting I remember

We build the fire high just as the frosted fingers of dusk start to creep through the desert, the horizon unobstructed by the city skylines

I take one more look at the mirror and check the angle of my pocket square. The suit looks good, but then it always does—one