Olo Books: 58 books

"Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker in 'Mrs. Marigold's House'.....Highly recommended."-- Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's Every Hallowe'en, Mrs. Marigold invites only six children to her mansion.  One boy, Adam, warns Ashley away, but her parents, desperate to get in...

A Mohawk man who will do anything to make his two sons love him again. Three women on two different continents, spanning three different generations, linked only by blood and diamonds. A janitor plots revenge against her boss. A man who loves his wife so much,...

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,...

Chris would do anything for his hot, young wife. Even yoga. Even yoga at sunrise, on a Montreal ship, to celebrate spring solstice. He steps on board, braced for incense and some uncomfortable body twists, unaware of the true mastermind awaiting him.

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...

Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes has been told, "You look like such a sweet girl, but your writing is so violent.” She gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls," and "Mrs. Marigold's House" for...

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.

At West Vincent High School, the power couple ain’t the prom king and queen. The head janitor, Gordon Pinchuk, rules the roost, harassing everyone from the principal down to the students. Gordon saves some special grief for Birdie, the one female janitor. Good thing Birdie’s...

"...a medical student who is anything but ordinary... Kyla has a strange gift:  she can hear skin songs.  To her, a person's skin has a song and each person sounds differently.  On arriving at med school she finds herself in a quandary:  does the skin song continue...

Julia Sharpe predicted she’d find romance on November 22nd. Darwin Jones saunters into town, right on schedule. That thud you’re hearing?  Julia’s twelve-year-old heart dropping out of her body and into the nearest Ottawa snowbank. In the olden days, like last year,...

Parenthood meets new technology on new territory, whether that's an exiled monk shepherding an eight-year-old monk into space or the first half-bonobo, half-human hybrid venturing out of his steel room. Award-winning author and physician, Melissa Yuan-Innes, explores the strange new worlds...

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...

Mark loves Laura, but he's got to prove it. She wants to be courted with all the usual old-fashioned things: movies, coffee, and a sacrifice. What's the big deal? Everything has to die eventually. A story that asks, "How far would you go for love?" in 1500 words. Melissa Yuan-Innes's debut short story, first published in Parsec Magazine.

Hi. I Sam. I half bonobo, half human. That make people want to kill me. I not care. I play in my steel room. But then something go very wrong. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection "affecting"-- Rich Horton, SF Site ...