Melissa Yuan Innes: 64 books

The hours are inhumane. Thoracic surgeon: "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep." Orthopedic surgery resident: "We do 72 hours on call on the weekends...but if you just accept that you'll have no life for five years,...

When my father--the smart, strong, mostly silent type--got diagnosed with a brain tumor a few months after his 56th birthday, I figured we'd ended up with the worst Christmas present ever. Instead, he and my infant son taught me the most important Christmas lesson of all. An inspirational tale originally published in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

Octavia Klein unearths a box of buried treasure while digging a fertility garden in the backyard of her Montreal mansion. The treasure belongs to one foul-mouthed leprechaun who promises her three wishes if she’ll just hand back the treasure, “you periwinkle snot-nose cavorter with beasts!”...

One family. Three days. Two theme parks. Will they survive? The players. Code name: The Skeptic. When he was a kid, his parents would drive him and his sister down on annual torture-trips to Florida, with the dog sandwiched between them. The Skeptic hates crowds and noise, and barely...

When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital.  On a cold day in December, a mysterious man makes a pilgrimage to a hidden corner of Montreal, Canada.  He has been walking for almost 2000 years and must negotiate a dwarf, a three-headed dog, and worse...

​What if loaves of bread could talk to you, and you could hear them? What if you could hear the story of all inanimate objects? What would you do with that power? Would you try to save the world, or would you just try to save yourself? A short story about strangers, ESP, and the curious sense of connection and wonder.  

Who wants to lose a few pounds? I do, I do! Who wants to read about weight loss? Um… Look. I know where you're coming from. Doctors like me should get all excited about slimming down, but if you ask me to count calories or eat like a cavewoman, I sprint for the door....

When Melanie's mother dumps her at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, Melanie can handle the uniforms and the 6 a.m. wake-up calls.  But when the nuns' discipline turns savage and Melanie discovers that the parents have essentially abandoned them, Melanie must save herself and her best friend, even if it means consorting with a vampire.

Selected for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 Edition, Edited by Paula Guran Seven-year-old Trenton Lo loves basketball and Star Wars and most of all, his family and Guangdong Barbecue, the restaurant they’re desperately trying to run in an unfashionable corner of Toronto,...

Two Shaolin monks exiled to outer space try to keep up their traditions, including kung fu, on their way to answer an alien communication signal.  But when Little Tiger falls ill, they must reinvent their approach in order to survive. "[A]n intriguing story of a group of Chinese...

What if...your best friend was a long, thin slice of dill pickle and you played with him every night in your dreams? What if...this world became more real than the one you're in right now? What if...Pickle Joe took you swimming up the Amazon River and the piranhas attacked you? A story of a thousand words about pickles, piranhas, and parents.

Jenny Reed? Just another kid who died from anorexia. Jenny Rex? That's Jenny Reed back from the grave, making it her mission to inform the world about her deadly disease. Instead of dragging entrails and consuming brains, she's charming the world with her drive, her sass, and funny little...

In the heart of ancient China, two princesses, one monk, and a ghost battle for life. When the King draws his last breath and the pregnant Queen begins to hemorrhage, two princesses gallop toward the tree of life, praying for one precious leaf that will save their brother’s life, the as-yet-unborn...

When a tyrant overtakes her space colony, Emma Lo strikes back with her art.  She employs nanotechnology to transform her century-old body so that she may play Othello in a desperate bid to satirize and overthrow the President—until someone hacks Emma's com link and begins to blackmail...