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Life shouldn’t be this hard. You feel like you’ll never get out of the cycle of addiction or abuse you’ve been in for years. You struggle day after day just to pay the bills and make ends meet. Even your health isn’t what it used to be. In these moments of despair, you feel abandoned – by...

Family time takes the stage with this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From the gut-wrenching struggle to survive a broken family to the heartbreaking loss of a child to the all-encompassing power of familial love, Legacies takes readers on a roller-coaster of emotions. Spanning genre lines...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our April 2019 issue (#151) contains: Original fiction by Natalia Theodoridou ("The Last Eagle"),...

Atlanta. ATL. The Rising Phoenix. The City too Busy to Hate. The Black Mecca. Capital of the Deep South. There, between flitting shadows and full moons, exists another world filled with dark creatures, demons, and immortals. Only a thin veil separates the Atlanta you know from this mysterious realm....

In A HEART FOR CHRISTMAS, Yvette Stilwell, a young widow, has overcome a terrible loss. Her eight year old daughter, Lacey, is her primary focus and romance is a thing of the past...until now. When Christopher Darcy realizes that the woman sitting next to him in the airport is the “one that...

The LOVE AT CHRISTMASTTIME Series In A HEART FOR CHRISTMAS, Yvette Stilwell, a young widow, has overcome a terrible loss.  Her eight year old daughter, Lacey, is her primary focus and romance is a thing of the past...until now. When Christopher Darcy realizes that the woman sitting next...

From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in a...

A Black American Christmas short story – A looming job loss sends Dee into cost-cutting mode during the Christmas holidays while her husband is seemingly taking the opposite approach. Can they agree to the worth of holiday traditions during this stressful time? Approximately 2,100 words. Originally published on The Saturday Evening Post's website.

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from...

The Mother’s Day bouquet isn’t at all what Melanie expected when she placed the order at Miss Lila’s Extraordinary Floral Shop. The hot pink flowers are way too gaudy for her staid grandmother. Or are they? A 4,409 word short story featuring a magical floral shop in Atlanta where the right bouquet makes all the difference.

This collection of S.Y. Agnon’s short stories, published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Literature, surveys the major theme in his writing: the epic transformations in the life of the Jewish people – both in Europe and in the Land of Israel. In new and revised translations,...

S.Y. Agnon’s first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossible moral dilemma faced by the tragic hero Menasheh Chaim, in mid-19th century Buczacz (in today’s...

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Winner of 2015 Canada Reads Prize Winner of Grand Prix littéraire Archambault Finalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the...

A Black American short story - All Sandra wanted was a nice, Thanksgiving away from her country,family with her new, sophisticated friends. When her cousin Ree Ree shows up unexpectedly, Sandra finds herself trying to reconcile how she grew up to the person she wants to be. A quick, humorous, holiday read of 3,640 words.