24 must-read short stories books like St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

Cover of St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s …

If you liked the short stories plot in St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. The Maiden Thief

By: Melissa Marr

3.43

Format: 33 pages, ebook

"The Maiden Thief" by Melissa Marr is a dark fantasy novelette about a teenager whose town is plagu… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Marr's The Maiden Thief book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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2. Red as Blood and White as Bone

By: Theodora Goss

3.54

Format: 337 pages, ebook

Red as Blood and White as Boneby Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with… read more

Similar categories in Theodora Goss's Red as Blood and White as Bone book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. Milagroso

By: Isabel Yap

3.73

Format: None pages, ebook

Marty always believed the lab-grown foods he helped produce were miraculous. But in his childhood h… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Yap's Milagroso book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Hanging Game

By: Helen Marshall

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, ebook

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more

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5. A Cup of Salt Tears

By: Isabel Yap

3.71

Format: 234 pages,

Makino's mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted t… read more

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6. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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7. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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8. Daughter of Necessity

By: Marie Brennan

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

By day she crafts; by night she unmakes. Surely somewhere, in all the myriad crossings of the threa… read more

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9. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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10. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Little Witch

By: M. Rickert

3.59

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a wi… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's The Little Witch book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
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13. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Also, the Cat book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

Cover of St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

14. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. Little Free Library

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.03

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Sharing stories we love with one another is one of the most magical forms of connection there is. T… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Little Free Library book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • magical realism
  • magic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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16. The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

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17. Open House on Haunted Hill

By: John Wiswell

4.14

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people wh… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Open House on Haunted Hill book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

18. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly

19. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections

By: Tina Connolly

4.23

Format: 30 pages, ebook

A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more

Similar categories in Tina Connolly's The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • fantasy
  • short stories
  • magic
  • fiction
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20. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Two Truths and a Lie book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

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21. Into the Gray

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.56

Format: 22 pages, ebook

"You're using me," I said. "That might be true, but I also love you." One is the Lady of the … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's Into the Gray book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot

By: Robert Olen Butler

3.72

Format: None pages, None

A re-imagining of a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler. A man dies suddenly a… read more

Similar categories in Robert Olen Butler's Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Vaccine Season by Hannu Rajaniemi

25. Vaccine Season

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

3.96

Format: None pages, None

In a post-pandemic future where scientists have made great strides in eliminating disease, a young … read more

Similar categories in Hannu Rajaniemi's Vaccine Season book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fiction

26. Dark Spaces on the Map

By: Anjali Sachdeva

3.71

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2) by Carrie Vaughn

27. Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirat… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2) book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
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28. The Year Without Sunshine

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.23

Format: 35 pages, ebook

Hugo Voter Packet edition. read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's The Year Without Sunshine book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. Better Living Through Algorithms

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.25

Format: 13 pages, ebook

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Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Better Living Through Algorithms book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
Cover of I'll Miss Myself by John Wiswell

30. I'll Miss Myself

By: John Wiswell

3.82

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timel… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's I'll Miss Myself book and C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition by Gu Shi

31. Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition

By: Gu Shi

3.47

Format: 25 pages, ebook

2024 Hugo Voter Packet version. read more

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