Hello, my friends! You know how this goes—here is the part where I tell you how much I love books. Because it’s true! Omgggggg, do I love reading. And reading new releases and learning about upcoming books is getting me through 2026, which has already been 17 years long.
But what is not long are short stories! I never feel like I read enough short stories, even though we are offered a plethora of amazing collections each year. I am always trying to correct that, and perhaps I will do it with these five exciting collections of the speculative flavor I love.
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I Am the Ghost Here: Stories by Kim Samek (The Dial Press, February 24)Never mind that I may have to buy this book for the cover alone; the insides also sound incredible. This debut collection is 12 fantastical stories about 12 different women. Each is dealing with the modern horrors of social media, bodily autonomy, and technology, like a DoorDasher who becomes the star of someone else’s reality show, a gymnastics coach whose heart is in a jar, and soulmates who learn they weren’t so much fated to meet as set up by advertisers. |
Slow Stories by Bette A. (The Unnamed Press, March 3)This anthology features people experiencing alternate histories and parallel worlds, and is being compared to the world-building of Italo Calvino. There’s a man who is crossing a desert while carrying a huge rock; a man who refuses to fight disrupts plans for a memorial; doors appear and disappear on a house as babies are born; creatures try to solve an existential riddle; and more. |
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