41 forward-looking, positive short stories and poems spanning all genres. All proceeds to benefit Action Against Hunger. Captured Inside by Charlie Rogers Electric Gnome by Ryan Walraven The Sprout by Philine Schiller At Evensong, Heart Pine by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins The End by Hannah Hulbert Spider Lover by Emily Zinkin Transcript of the New Promise Document Summit Final Debate by Sarah Linders Everything but the Mortgage by Myna Chang The Way Forwards by Annie Percik The Unanswered Invocation of Women by Leah Holbrook Sackett Freedom by Richard Faul The Fishpond and Rabbi Ilfi by Doreen Stock Crossing the Slippery Pebbles, I Take It Upon Myself by Gurupreet K. Khalsa Four Feet by Ian Harrison The Work by Diane Callahan Morning on the Farm by Pamela Stockwell The Journey by John Bukowski The Rendezvous by Terra Weiss Outcast by Chrissie Rohrman Oh Sweetie by Beulah Vega The Genealogy of Rebellion by Katie Conrad The Hermit by Robert Beveridge Unfamiliar by Marie Kelly Pep Talk by Shane Schick Maria Hopes for a Future by Nicola Ashbrook Preamble Scramble, Erasure Poem by Bruce Robinson Dusk on Sterling Creek, Nesting by Barbara A Meier Sitting with Emily by Kersten Christianson Closing the Distance, Freedom from Want by Kathryn Sadakierski Maggie’s Machine by Joanne Askew Illusion Shattered, Hope Is a Thing with Wings by Carol Casey Hope by Susan P. Blevins Crush Season by Shelby Van Pelt Two Sunsets and the Loan of One Goat by Kate Leimer Roman Candle by Abi Hennig
Full Disclosure, I was one of the curators on this collection. I loved everything that was submitted. Some really interesting and well crafted short fiction.