Early ReviewersJared Cappel

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.

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 bioethics. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.

• Sacrificing Mercy: A devout Christian refuses a heart transplant based on her religious convictions.
  


• The Human Experience: A married couple negotiates the genetic future of their unborn child.
  


• Euthanasia: In a dystopian future, Hank works on a farm for the euthanizing of sick, unwanted, or abandoned animals.
  


• In Defense Of The Harvest: The first recipient does his best to explain the situation that created the law for harvesting prisoner organs.
  


• Two-Percenters: A new treatment may allow 98% of the people to be genetically enhanced, but at the expense of the 2% who already are.
  


• The Decay: Benjamin's pharmacy suggests he consider enrolling in a government program to end his life.
  


• Visions of Midwives: A midwife in training learns the midwife secret, that at the moment of birth each midwife is able to see the future of the newly born child.
  


• On Good Authority: A doctor with a new vaccine for the "zombie virus" takes it to the next town and discovers two startling revelations.
  


• Step Back: A husband and wife decide to have a natural childbirth and find it's more than they bargained.
  


• All Harriet's Pieces: A young girl faces the death of her mother and the loss of her closest companion.