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Beautiful Ugly

“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.” Author: Alice Feeney Author Grady Green is a ruined man. He can’t write anymore. He can’t think of anything anymore except his disappeared, presumed dead wife, and the night that everything happened. He was on the phone with her, elated to tell her his good news, when she slammed on the breaks, got out of the car, and then exited his life forever. Her coat was found in the waves below the cliff she was driving up. Now, at the behest of his agent, Grady is going to a reclusive cabin on a Scottish [...]

2025-10-16T10:53:02-07:00October 16th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Wild Dark Shore

“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.” Author: Charlotte McConaghy Shearwater, a tiny island near Antarctica, has a brutal shoreline. This is a place only fit for seals and penguins, a place slowly being reclaimed by the choppy ocean, a place that is gradually being drowned. It’s a space haunted by bad memories, bitter weather, and one doomed family who are trying desperately to move the world’s largest seed bank before it is swallowed by the uncaring tide. This family – the Salts – consists of a grieving father and [...]

2025-10-12T10:16:39-07:00October 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Thirteenth Child, The

“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.” Author: Erin A. Craig Hazel’s parents never wanted her. As a matter of fact, they gave her to The Dreaded End as an infant. Since then, they have none so patiently waited for this thirteenth child of theirs to be taken by the Dreaded End, her supposed godfather. But he never comes. And so Hazel waits for him, year after year, unwanted, unloved, un-celebrated. On her twelfth birthday, after watching her closest brother be given to the dissonant Fractured Ones, The Dreaded End finally comes for Hazel and whisks [...]

2025-09-22T11:22:22-07:00September 22nd, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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