novella

3 min read 2021-12-30 21:00:00

a psalm for the wild-built

One of the most soothing reads I picked up in recent months? Becky Chambers’ novella A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the first in the Monk and Robot

2 min read 2021-12-16 18:09:52

Once upon a time, a monk living on a solarpunk moon left the city on a quest to hear crickets. Sibling Dex leaves their post as a gardener and takes

4 min read 2021-12-06 21:00:47

Greg Wong hates when things don’t go according to plan, so he definitely doesn’t appreciate it when his mother insists he drive Tasha Edwards

2 min read 2021-12-03 22:00:08

A Shady Hollow Holiday Short Story It’s the winter solstice in Shady Hollow, that magical time of year when creatures of all shapes and sizes

2 min read 2021-12-02 21:00:50

An uneasy alliance between warring families gets heated in this otherworldly novella from bestselling author Ilona Andrews. At first glance, the

1 min read 2021-11-25 21:00:53

A Thanksgiving rom-com with lots of food and interfering family! Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights

1 min read 2021-11-22 21:00:43

Marigold Kinderley’s uncle kept her wrapped in cotton wool. So Lady Sylvia found a way to take Marigold home with her for summer break. When

1 min read 2021-11-22 19:00:12

This contest submissions season covers deadlines from December 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. Thanks to Literistic, Poets & Writers,

1 min read 2021-11-22 17:59:38

DRY HEAT I finished reading all the novellas set in orphanages. In a drop ceiling environment, no longer coerced by a piano’s black keys. There

1 min read 2021-11-18 21:00:05

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from

1 min read 2021-11-18 00:52:44

No matter what we might believe, we are all pawns in a far larger, longer game than we can imagine The unnamed narrator of The Long Game is an

1 min read 2021-11-15 20:00:12

In the Corporate Rim everything has a price. Even scientific research requires Company-mandated safety measures including hired SecUnits. As

1 min read 2021-11-15 12:00:00

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my

1 min read 2021-11-09 21:00:07

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect.

1 min read 2021-10-27 03:25:00

A Christmas Waltz. Josi S. Kilpack. 2020. [November] 130 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The dark-haired man with the red satin waistcoat