“Come,” they told me. The three strangers passing through my city that night. They stopped to listen as I played my Derbekkeh, my hand drum. My only possession. It isn’t much, but it is all that I have. And it is my hope of a future. I make noise to make my living. “Come?” I […]

Once there was a girl who wanted, more than anything, to sail around the world. It is a strange wish. A wish for an extraordinary thing. She stands at the window of her house, at the very edge of her village, staring out into the sea. She waits for her father. But she knows that […]

Editor’s Note: You can get Helena’s Shiloh Series, the entire trilogy in print, for only $30 (for a limited time). See here!   The floor was polka-dotted with buttons. Blue and red and yellow and green. Round and square and scalloped. Someone had bumped the button jar and spilled it, but it wasn’t Verity. She […]

I love this story. So, though we ran it on SW Shorts several moons ago, I wanted to share it again (in case anyone missed it). This is wonderful. –Sam The Stag Who Lived Forever by Bryana Johnson, illustrated by Zach Franzen It was a matter of great importance, and the morning wind that carries […]