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Content warning child death
Her son dies in a childsized bed, big enough for him but barely enough to hold her and her husband who cling to the edges, folding themselves small so they fit one on each side of him.
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an …
Today is the anniversary of Little Girl With Popsicle.
My head is throbbing again, a white-hot line of pain from the back of my skull down to the right side of my jaw, and a dead man is signaling me from across the common room.
— Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To …
The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain.
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
Long after the House is gone, it’s there.
Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of …
For all the danger in that forest with its tumblingdown ruins, the beauty pulled me back one last time.
— Interference by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
There were not so many places to lurk in the scholars’ residence on Thanma Street.
— The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
The portable surgery unit hulked at the edge of a tract field, ringed by four-byfours and a lone Jeep.
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
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Damira followed the blood down the hill.
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
The axe cleaved the log in two.
