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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: , , , , |

Shark Heart

Would you still love me if I were a shark? Author: Emily Habeck Newlyweds Lewis and Wren dream of many things. Lewis, a failed actor and beloved teacher, still dreams that one day he will write the play to end all plays. And Wren, she dreams of never being abandoned again, of embracing someone who will stay. Both will have their hearts broken. Lewis notices the changes at first and thinks nothing of them, but eventually he puts aside his avoidance and goes to the doctor. The diagnosis is stark. His body is, indeed, changing, and there is nothing they can [...]

2024-10-15T10:24:39-07:00October 15th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

A Dark, Beautiful Fairytale Author: Laird Hunt Once upon a time, long, long ago a woman goes into the dark forest to pick berries for her husband and son only to get lost. Known only by the title of an average old timey wife and mother, “Goody” seeks the road home. Along the way she encounters progressively weirder sights and finally an old woman in a small house who grants her respite, comfort, and bizarre dreams of magic and dark things in the forest.  As Goody works her way through the surreal landscape, puzzling together her quest, an ancient scream at [...]

2022-07-26T08:55:34-07:00March 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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