Magic for Beginners
Nine surreal, genre-bending stories turn everyday lives into uncanny fairy tales, with magic, dread, and open endings.
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All the Names They Used for God
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Nuestro mundo muerto
Eight uncanny stories move between Bolivia, Mars, and the edge of horror, where death, memory, and the supernatural collide.
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.
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The Adjacent
In a climate-ravaged future Britain, a grieving photographer is pulled into a mystery that echoes across wars, worlds, and identities.
Jane, Unlimited
A grieving teen enters an island mansion and faces branching choices that split her life into wildly different paths.
Empire of the Senseless
In a near-future Paris, two outlaw lovers—a pirate and a cyborg—drift through revolution, violence, and fractured desire.
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories
A surreal short story collection where bizarre premises reveal love, loss, faith, and human longing.
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Good Night, Sleep Tight
A short story collection of eerie horror and speculative tales about AI, family bonds, and post-human dread.
The Third Bear
A surreal short-story collection where bizarre, unsettling tales blur reality, fantasy, horror, and dream logic.
Terrestrial History
A climate-strained family spans generations and timelines as Earth falters and Mars beckons, with time travel in the mix.
The Coma
After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.