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Murdered at sixteen, Ella's ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to every...
Andrew Joseph White’s You Weren’t Meant to Be Human Pushes a Lot of Buttons
Alex Brown doesn't chicken out of Andrew Joseph White's intense first novel for adults.
Highway to History: R.L. Stine’s The Cataluna Chronicles
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A divinely blessed warrior bound to the last living goddess plots deicide to win her freedom.
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025
As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months...
The HIPAA Violation from Hell: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 2)
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An almost-mage discovers friendship—and maybe something more—in the unlikeliest of places…
Exploring the Potential for Evil in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
Isabel Cañas' wonderfully creepy third novel is another great recent example of Gothic horror.
A Tale of Paradox and Coincidence: Invasion From 2500 by “Norman Edwards”
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Laurie on the Radio
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If a Digitized Tree Falls
As humanity moves to the stars, a young woman attempts to preserve the magical forest she fell i...
The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home
To celebrate her grandmother, all the captain of the Sopinha de Feijão wanted was to build a str...
In Connorville
A woman returning to her family’s home town for a wedding discovers why people in Connorville—in...
With Only a Razor Between
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