Early ReviewersTyler W. Kurt
May 2024 Batch
Request By: May 28 at 06:00 pm EDT - 12 days left!
Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of equality and diversity.
Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Edition Editor - Kolby Granville
- A Wolf On The Bus: A wolf rides the bus, and is subject to discrimination by riders and police.
- Teddy And Roosevelt: Two misfit boys strike up an unlikely friendship in the shadow of President Roosevelt.
- The Hanging Man: Patrons ignore a dead homeless man hanging in the corner of a posh art gallery opening.
- Never Enough (Until You Earn It): Two African refugees make their way to Europe and are provided "basic income."
- Drag Brunch: Hannah's gay friend is excluded from her bachelorette party.
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Reincarnation: A gay couple, and a trans couple, get together for drinks and try to figure out what it means to be a man/woman.
- The Draft: Society forces all babies to be born, but creates a lottery system requiring all men to care for the offspring.
- The Human Experience: A married couple negotiates the genetic future of their unborn child.
- The Crate: Two women escape from a country that forces equal treatment to one that encourages differences, and find both have their issues.
- As You Wish: An elderly woman finds a trunk of tattered stuffed animals and makes a promise to fix them all.
- Media
- Ebook
- Genres
- LGBTQ+, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- Offered by
- After Dinner Conversation Inc (Publisher)
- Links
- Book Information
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April 2024 Batch
Giveaway Ended: April 25 at 06:00 pm EDT
Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs
Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of crimes and their punishments. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.
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Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.
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Community Of Peers: A foreigner wanders into a remote village just before a convicted criminal is about to be punished and is asked to throw the first stone.
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Form Seven Alpha: A city resident is caught breaking the law and is given the choice between one of five punishment options.
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Conscience Cleaners: A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed.
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Blackorwhite: A lactose intolerant inmate tells his story to, and befriends, the doctor assigned to look after him.
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Conveyor: Arthur Montague is on trial for genocide and war crimes...again, and again, for eternity.
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Soon The Sentence Sign: A bar fight turns into a brush with the colonial AI driven judicial system.
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Bunny Racing: Two bunnies race, but one of them has been eating a special carrot from the forbidden forest to help him run faster.
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The Only Punishment: A street-hardened criminal is forced to live his crimes from the perspective of his victims.
- Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.
- Media
- Ebook
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Offered by
- After Dinner Conversation Inc (Publisher)
- Links
- Book Information
LibraryThing Work Page