“Magical girls exist because justice does not.” Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge. But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white—her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a…
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Moonflower by Kacen Callender
“Our bodies are borrowed from the earth, like plants growing from the ground, walking and talking and moving around. And when we die, our bodies go back to the earth again.” Moon has been plunged into a swill of uncertainty and confusion. They travel to the spirit realms every night, hoping never to return to…
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
“One thing I’ve learned, Calvin: people will always yearn for a simple solution to their complicated problems. It’s a lot easier to have faith in something you can’t see, can’t touch, can’t explain, and can’t change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can….One’s self, I mean.” Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your…
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
“An understanding of who I am, my place in this world as well as his. But the guns make that impossible, bullets and fear equal death every time because my face will never evoke his son, his brother, his father, his uncles, his teenaged self, carefree, living on the edge before teh rigors of the…
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
“You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I’ve never been more in love with you.” From Goodreads: Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. A competitive figure skater since she was five…
The Boy with a Bird in His Chest by Emme Lund
“Life is not easy for those of us who are different,” his mother said. “It is not easy for people who are similar to others. Life will never be easy for you, but I thought you should know that you’re not alone. There are plenty like you. You just have to find each other. It…
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
“Ladies’ stockin’s and exotic bean water. Gods help us.” After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success…
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
“If I were a man, I would fight him. If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men… She stared at her fingers…
Day Boy by Trent Jamieson
“Man or monster. There’s different types of both.” The Masters worship the Sun. It is the only god that is as cruel as they are. They rule the Red City and the lands far beyond it. By night, they politic and feast, drinking from the townsfolk resigned to their fates. However, by day, the Masters…
The Gathering Dark
The term folk horror was what originally peaked my interest for this anthology. I love those weird local stories that everywhere has and have been generally trying to read more horror. There were a few authors in here that I wanted to test out like Erica Waters, Tori Bovalino, and Allison Saft. I also wanted…
The Great Book Wyrm 