Second debut novel scream for today is A Barista's Guide to Love and Larceny by Caroline Bonin! A Barista's Guide releases tomorrow and I was privileged to read an ARC. This is a wonderful read. I…

Wooden wheels crack against the dirt road, warning me of the owner’s approach. His journey up my hill is slow. The cart fights its way through the brambles and wildflowers that have made the path…

Today's 2026 Debut novel I'm so excited to share about is Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum, which I got to read an advanced reader copy (ARC) through NetGalley! This is such a good cozy…

I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this. “The Last Adult Superstore” looked like a Costco, a football field-sized rectangle of a building with cheap white walls. If not for having their name…

I read Tidespeaker by Sadie Turner in December because she kindly shared an advanced reader copy with me. This is a really unique take on controlling elements with a small stakes mystery opening up…

LAST CALL Fill a tall glass with ice cubes The internet went out yesterday so I can’t Google the instructions, but I used to make these for

He goes to Earth alone.

by Deborah L. Davitt

LGBTQ READS MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQ+ ADULT FICTIONThe cozy fantasy of TJ Klune meets the creeping horror of T. Kingfisher in this magical novel about a man who enters a deadly enchanted forest expectin...

they brought the girls / for trial / think of the thick / skirts the linen / fine as skin

Diabolical Plots

Some of your mother remained burning in the wick of the candle she had lit for you while you wrung out tattered rags to daub the sweat from her forehead. She had always run too hot, your mother.

Isn’t it funny, the words ring in your head relentlessly incessant, like a child sobbing loudly nearby whose wails you cannot ignore.

Diabolical Plots

“Generic State University has been proudly upholding its mission to provide opportunities and build character in all students since its founding. Now, we tur...

You’re only this young and usable once, so you have to make the most of it. At least that’s what your perfect, omniscient parents say. As the founders of CL-1, Neo-Shanghai’s largest genetic…

Read Ai Jiang's short story "The Earthquakes are Coming" in Issue 58: Summer 2022 of The Puritan, then check out our annual literary prize!

Starhawk (she/her) is a writer, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a leading voice for ecofeminism and earth-based spirituality. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirit...

Contemporary fiction from Mexico; woman author; appropriate for middle school students; themes of childhood and leaving home.

Thirty-four fool-proof steps detailing how to lose to Death, should you ever need to. Clever flash fiction by Priya Sridhar

There exist places where the walls between worlds grow thin. Places like this one, where two villages press together like lips on opposite sides of a glass: Renna-tal and Renna-ba, both perched on …

We have a new story this week - plus we've just published a new Wyldblood Magazine and we'd love you to see it. Details after the story... (In)finitum Vaughan Roste Immortality is boring. There, I…

There were walls within the glass mountain, just as clear as its sheer cliffsides. There were floors within the glass mountain—and ceilings, too—but they left just as little to the imagination. A…

by Sheila Massie

Some time ago, a Reuters/ShopSmart survey said the average woman (the average middle-class woman in a first-world country, I’m guessing) […]

by Ian Li