Christie Yant: 10 books

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose—or are forced—to leave home and familiar places. Recommended by Booklist (American Library Association), Library Journal,...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

The greatest gift to us is caring. What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with? Would love survive if we don't care? From the world of twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors comes a world that can be funny, heartwarming, strange, or sad. Or not what we expect....

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary...

Myths & Magic: In these six short stories by Christie Yant you'll meet a woman ripped out of her own fairy tale; a monk who may have spent his life serving the wrong goddess; the wild witch of the desert, and an unwelcome guest; a child whose Christmas gift could change every Christmas to come;...

IT'LL SOON BE DARK Eighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages. Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight. These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and...

The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether...

Who does one call, she wondered as she counted them up, to get rid of demons? Is this something an exterminator can handle? Is it even ethical to call an exterminator? They seemed so... substantial. Would Animal Control or the Humane Society be a better bet? Or the Vatican? She’d read that...

There is a word for it, but it is taboo to her people, and never expressed. If she knew the right word, she would say that what she wants is vengeance. She sits in silence with her rage in her throat, and waits for the old woman to speak. She knows that soon the old woman will tell her...

She called herself Audra, though that wasn’t her real name; he called himself Miles, but she suspected it wasn’t his, either. She was young (how young she would not say), beautiful (or so her Emil had told her), and she had a keen interest in stories. Miles was old, tattooed, perverted, and often...