Hope: The Thing With Feathers

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Coming 2 August 2025!

HOPE: The Thing With Feathers

Stories to bring hope in dark times. Inspired by Emily Dickinson's famous poem, these stories each have a feather motif and a hopeful positive ending.

We all go through hardship from time to time and hope is the ineffable force that keeps us going despite it all. In a time when there seem to be more shadows in the world than we remember these are stories to rekindle the light and help us find our path to a better happier future.

Stories of strange invention

As well as being hopeful in tone, these stories from talented science fiction and fantasy writers will bring you to weird and wonderful worlds of imagination — and feathers!

Contents

The Letter Writers — Chloe Smith
Pitstop at the Lunar Station — Veda Villiers
When an Angel Molts — HL Fullerton
Birdcalls of the Carpathian Mountains — Sam Ruhmkorff
The Lay-by-rinth — Anna Orridge
The City That Listened — Jade Scardham
Echo of the Desert in the Sky — Erin Darrow
What We Had Left — Gabrielle Contelmo
Blood Feathers — S. J. Fry
Queen of Crows — Rachel Ayers
The Song Lives On — Louie Sullivan
The Trash King — Maggie Slater
Magic is Given — Jacy Morris
Shiver Soft Feathers — L'Erin Ogle
A Touch of the Wind — Frances Pauli
The Sky was Made for Wings — Michael Reed
Going Home — Martin Westlake
For All That Is And Still Lives — Lisa Fransson
A Bird Afraid of Feathers — B. Morris Allen

Cover art based on an image by Patricia Talavera