The Future Library
By: Peng Shepherd
4.12
Format: 32 pages, ebook
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth…
Want to Read $ 1.99"Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment."-Peng Shepherd, The Future Library
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1. I, Zombie
By: Hugh Howey
3.69
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
*** NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION*** This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of li… read more
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- science fiction
- dystopia
- fantasy
- fiction
"This is before the years stretched out into what feels like a forever. When sick men refuse to die. When innocent men find something to be guilty of. When years jumble together like water beading up …"-Hugh Howey, I, Zombie
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
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
3. 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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4. 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
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
5. D.I.Y
By: John Wiswell
3.76
Format: 25 pages, ebook
When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more
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- lgbt
- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
6. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.98
Format: 32 pages, ebook
While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
7. Ivy, Angelica, Bay
By: C.L. Polk
4.16
Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition
When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
8. L'Esprit de L'Escalier
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.97
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
9. Small Monsters
By: E. Lily Yu
3.91
Format: 37 pages, ebook
All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
10. The River and the World Remade
By: E. Lily Yu
3.47
Format: 13 pages, ebook
When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best tog… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- short stories
11. Blood in the Thread
By: Cheri Kamei
3.86
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
12. Salt Water
By: Eugenia Triantafyllou
3.62
Format: 18 pages, ebook
While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
13. Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.00
Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition
Delicately balancing between poetry and prose, award-winning author and illustrator Kathleen Jennin… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
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
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
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
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- magical realism
- short stories
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- books about books
16. The Job at the End of the World
By: Ray Nayler
3.76
Format: 21 pages, ebook
A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more
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- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
17. 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
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- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"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
18. After the Animal Flesh Beings
By: Brian Evenson
3.85
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more
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- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
19. 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
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- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
20. The Future Library
By: Peng Shepherd
4.12
Format: 32 pages, ebook
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- nature
- books about books
"Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment."-Peng Shepherd, The Future Library
21. The Tinder Box
By: Kate Elliott
3.66
Format: 26 pages, ebook
A reimagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s original fairytale, Kate Elliott's “The Tinder Box” tell… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
22. Form 8774-D
By: Alex Irvine
3.91
Format: 54 pages, ebook
It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
23. Counting Casualties
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.69
Format: 18 pages, ebook
Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
24. Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit
By: K.J. Parker
3.78
Format: 27 pages, ebook
A talented bookbinder is tasked with creating a copy of a text so inflammatory it threatens to alte… read more
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- dystopia
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- books about books
25. Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.10
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly d… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
26. An Easy Job
By: Carrie Vaughn
3.99
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
An Easy Job is a short story from Carrie Vaughn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
27. #Selfcare
By: Annalee Newitz
3.54
Format: 30 pages, ebook
From the Lambda award-winning author of Autonomous comes Annalee Newitz's Tor.com Original short st… read more
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- magical realism
- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
28. Sand
By: Jasmin Kirkbride
3.84
Format: 25 pages, ebook
"Sand" is a heart-wrenching tale about generational trauma and healing from Jasmin Kirkbride. When… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"There are things about parenthood you can’t really know until you’re a parent yourself – not because they put you on a higher plane of existence, just because they’re too weird or difficult to explai…"-Jasmin Kirkbride, Sand
29. Lunar Boy
By: Jacinta Wibowo
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- lgbt
30. The Red Mother
By: Elizabeth Bear
4.12
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
The Red Mother is a fantasy novella by Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.Auga, a wandering s… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Dragons, it seemed, knew about death and war. But not so much about baking"-Elizabeth Bear, The Red Mother
"Dragons, it seemed, knew about death and war. But not so much about baking."-Elizabeth Bear, The Red Mother
"For nothing on the waters and the wide wide world is fiercer than a mother."-Elizabeth Bear, The Red Mother
"How odd it is that a small, frail, temporary person like yourself should make me feel so clearly seen."-Elizabeth Bear, The Red Mother
31. Let All the Children Boogie
By: Sam J. Miller
3.89
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving comes Sam J. Miller's sci-fi time trave… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive i…"-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie
"There would be time to tell Fell all of it. To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see u…"-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie
