Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.

¿Qué hay en el fondo de nosotrxs? ¿Qué hay, a su vez, en lo más profundo de lxs demás? El terror ilumina esas preguntas, es costura fina, una manera de explorar lugares lejanos, propios y ajenos, y de hablar de las diferencias, que hoy espantan a tanta gente. Sin duda, el terror descoloca nuestros prejuicios sobre la otredad, evoca los fantasmas que nos acompañan, piensa a la sociedad, la naturaleza, en nuestros límites, es una forma de mirar de cerca lo que, quizás, queremos esconder. ¿Qué significa el destape de lo macabro o, mejor dicho, de lo incomprensible? Este libro congrega textos inéditos de las voces más trascendentales (aunque no todas, claro) del terror actual latinoamericano. Una de las mejores dimensiones de la literatura híbrida sin duda reside en él. Con textos inéditos de: Mariana Enriquez (Argentina), Verena Cavalcante (Brasil), Elaine Vilar Madruga (Cuba), Ramiro Sanchiz (Uruguay), Malena Salazar Maciá (Cuba), Jumko Ogata Aguilar (México), Oscar Nestarez (Brasil), Bernardo Esquinca (México), Zezé Atabales (Chile), Marina Yuszczuk (Argentina), Hank T. Cohen (Colombia), Natalia Chávez (Bolivia), Pabsi Livmar (Puerto Rico), Stephany Méndez Perico (Colombia), Varela Leyva (Cuba), Jacobo Villalobos (Venezuela), Isis Aquino (República Dominicana), Lina María Parra Ochoa (Colombia), Alberto Chimal (México), Alexandra Pagán Vélez (Puerto Rico), Gabriela Damián Miravete (México), Markus Edjical Goth (República Dominicana), Natasha Rangel (Venezuela), Enrique Urbina (México), Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Ecuador), Gustavo Munckel (Bolivia) y Enza García Arreaza (Venezuela).

Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives: they are determined that she know only contentment.But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift—by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playmates are the creatures of a fantastic menagerie called there by wizardry. Sybel has cared nothing for humans, until the baby awakens emotions previously unknown to her. And when Coren—the man who brought this child—returns, Sybel's world is again turned upside down.

Since the day her father's fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. And suddenly into her drab life come the King's sons—changelings with strange ties to the underwater kingdom—a young magician, and, finally, love.

Sealey Head is a small sleepy town on the edge of the ocean, where sunset marks the tolling of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts is the great Aislinn House, where heir Miss Miranda Beryl and her entourage of friends and servants wait while aged Lady Eglantyne dies; where maid Emma opens doors sometimes to a castle with Princess Ysabo and knights.

An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken—and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats.When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn’t know that the property came with thirty feral cats. Focused only on her own survival—in a new relationship, during a pandemic, with poor mental health and a job that didn’t pay enough—Courtney was reluctant to spend any of her own time or money caring for the wayward animals.But the cats—their pleading eyes, their ribs showing, the new kittens born in the driveway—didn’t give her a choice.She had no idea about the grief and hardship of animal rescue, the staggering size of the problem in neighborhoods across the country. And she couldn’t have imagined how that struggle—toward an ethics of care, of individuals trying their best amid spectacularly failing systems—would help pierce a personal darkness she’d wrestled with for much of her life. She also didn’t expect that the TikTok and Instagram accounts she created to share the quirky personalities of the wild but lovable cats, like Monkey, Goldie, Francois, and Sad Boy, would end up saving her home.Courtney writes toward a vision of connectedness, showing how taking care of the cats reshaped her understanding of empathy, resilience, and the healing power of wholly showing up for something outside yourself. She takes us from the dark alleys where she feeds feral cats to inside the tragically neglected homes where she climbs over piles of trash, and occasionally animals, and then into her own driveway with the cats she loves and must sometimes let go. Compelling and tender, Poets Square is as much about cats as it is about the urgency of care, community, and a little bit of dumb hope.