Story spotlight: “The Fake Path to True Memory” by Brigid Collins

“Those memories might be important some day,” Charlie’s husband whispered. “You might want them after I’m gone.” Charlie did remember two things about his husband: the man had known Charlie wasn’t human, and he’d made Charlie promise to always remember his Faerie Realm origin. Now old age has left Charlie with nothing to occupy his…

Story spotlight: “The Body Plot” by Rebecca M. Senese

Called to a crime scene, Detective Maeve Hemlock identifies the body as a faerie. A faerie dead in the normal world. No identification. No obvious cause of death. As a faerie herself, Maeve feels obligated to investigate. But that means crossing back into the Nether Realm. The one thing she hates. All because of a…

Story spotlight: “Proof of Devotion” by Dayle A. Dermatis

  If Claire can’t prove Jason loves her, a faerie curse will rip them apart forever. But how do you prove someone’s devoted to you? Short story “Proof of Devotion” cleverly blends fantasy and romance in the magical Welsh countryside and proves why bestselling author Dayle A. Dermatis has been called one of the best…

Story spotlight: “Beneath the Knowe” by Anthea Sharp

From USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp, a magical faerie tale featuring an ancient Celtic setting, music, and the ageless denizens of the Bright Court. Can music overcome fey magic? When the chieftain’s infant son is stolen away by the fey folk of the Bright Court, Maeve Donnelly journeys beneath the faerie hill to save…

Story spotlight: “Rolo the Great” by Annie Reed

A heart-warming tale from Annie Reed, one of the founding members of The Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly publication of short fiction some of the best writers working in urban fantasy today. Rolo, a diminutive, courtly peddler of tourist trinkets, has at long last found the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately, she’s trapped in the belly…

Bundle story: “The Flat Above the Wynd” by Alexandra Brandt

As a half-Wyndling, Sky Patel already carefully stands with one foot in her beloved Edinburgh and one in the magical Wynd, a realm just on the other side of any Old Town alley (if you know how to get there). But now Sky must also protect the doorways between those two worlds. And when past…

Bundle story: “Silver Dust” by Leslie Claire Walker

Memory. Curses. Shadows. Silver had it all—eternal life, long-term memory, and a real sweet princess gig as the heir to the Faery King’s throne. But then the Faery realm caught a terrible disease, and she tried to save her people by taking the sickness into herself. She ended up banished with a price on her…

Bundle story: “Skywalkers” by Marcelle Dubé

  Night after night, Gisèle roams the streets of Montreal near the half-built Great Victoria Bridge, searching for whatever is unraveling the warp and weft of her island city. What she finds shakes her belief in herself, and reveals an ugly truth about the Fey who live in uneasy proximity to the humans.    …