Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

Humanity faces a world-altering event known as the ""awakening,"" which has replaced the traditional atmosphere...  Read More >>

Set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Bloodwater is a literary psychological suspense novel about a woman drawn into...  Read More >>

Literary Outlaw is a modern pulp fiction magazine featuring both original fiction as well as classic stories and...  Read More >>

Iola Dyson, 17, has a gift for talking depressed classmates off the roof. But her secret is so cosmic, so berserk...  Read More >>

Set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, this debut short story collection explores working-class lives marked by grief,...  Read More >>

Using humor and thoughtful poetics to examine the impact structural violence takes on the body, Slow Guillotine...  Read More >>

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When Dr Edward Sinclair is overtaken by a warrior spirit, he’s dragged into a secret war beneath London. As he and...  Read More >>

This story follows Beryl Allen, born in 1940s Gorbals, as she grapples with poverty, forbidden love and lifelong...  Read More >>

Fourteen women, connected across generations and realities, grapple with choice, motherhood, friendship and loss...  Read More >>

Meet Eddie ""The Cowboy"" DelDuco. Low-budget hitman. Professional problem solver. Human coupon for bad decisions....  Read More >>

Winner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar Through fifty short stories each exploring...  Read More >>

In Architectures of FuturoPasados, histories jostle futures in literary works of great power. The extraordinary...  Read More >>

An experimental Russian novel about a disappearing remote village and the ways its wayward children try to return...  Read More >>

Jack Grady hates what he once loved. Stuck in the grueling routine of dairy farming in rural Maine, Jack longs...  Read More >>

Iola Dyson, 17, has a gift for talking depressed classmates off the roof. But her secret is so cosmic, so berserk,...  Read More >>

Action and adventure set in the post-American Civil War era.  Read More >>

During the late moments of the 21st century, an unseen fascist putsch manifested across continental North America....  Read More >>

""A collection of ten stories often dealing, among other human-interest topics, with the Eastern European immigrant...  Read More >>

As interstellar object 3I-Atlas moves through the solar system, Kael aboard Celestara witnesses how humanity, science,...  Read More >>

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A man who sees poetry in the destruction of the human body A group of friends determined to find a real vampire...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Following up her delightful debut short story collection, Zoe Storm conjures five more tales of magic and discovery....  Read More >>

Two lovers go on one final road trip through the American desert, hoping that they can outrun life itself. Flash-fiction...  Read More >>