HOPE: The Thing With Feathers

Stories to bring hope in dark times.

Inspired by Emily Dickinson's famous poem, these stories each have a feather motif and a hopeful, positive ending.

We all go through hardship from time to time, and hope is the ineffable force that keeps us going despite it all. In a time when there seem to be more shadows in the world than we remember, these are stories to rekindle the light and help us find our path to a better, happier future.

Stories of strange invention

As well as being hopeful in tone, these stories from talented science fiction and fantasy writers will bring you to weird and wonderful worlds of imagination - and feathers!

Contents

• Epigraphs
• Dedication
• Strange Inventions (foreword)
• The Letter Writers - Chloe Smith
• Pitstop at the Lunar Station - Veda Villiers
• When an Angel Molts - H.L. Fullerton
• Birdcalls of the Carpathian Mountains - Sam Ruhmkorff
• The Lay-by-rinth - Anna Orridge
• The City That Listened - Jade Scardham
• Echo of the Desert in the Sky - Erin Darrow
• What We Had Left - Gabrielle Contelmo
• Blood Feathers - S. J. Fry
• Queen of Crows - Rachel Ayers
• The Song Lives On - Louie Sullivan
• The Trash King - Maggie Slater
• Magic is Given - Jacy Morris
• Shiver Soft Feathers - L'Erin Ogle
• A Touch of the Wind - Frances Pauli
• The Sky was Made for Wings - Michael Reed
• Going Home - Martin Westlake
• For All That Is And Still Lives - Lisa Fransson
• A Bird Afraid of Feathers - B. Morris Allen