HOPE

<p><strong>HOPE: The Thing With Feathers</strong></p><p>Stories to bring hope in dark times.</p><p></p><p>Inspired by Emily Dickinson's famous poem these stories each have a feather motif and a hopeful positive ending.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><em>Stories of strange invention</em></p><p>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!</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Contents</u></strong></p><ul><li>Epigraphs</li><li>Dedication</li><li>Strange Inventions (foreword)</li><li>The Letter Writers - Chloe Smith</li><li>Pitstop at the Lunar Station - Veda Villiers</li><li>When an Angel Molts - H.L. Fullerton</li><li>Birdcalls of the Carpathian Mountains - Sam Ruhmkorff</li><li>The Lay-by-rinth - Anna Orridge</li><li>The City That Listened - Jade Scardham</li><li>Echo of the Desert in the Sky - Erin Darrow</li><li>What We Had Left - Gabrielle Contelmo</li><li>Blood Feathers - S. J. Fry</li><li>Queen of Crows - Rachel Ayers</li><li>The Song Lives On - Louie Sullivan</li><li>The Trash King - Maggie Slater</li><li>Magic is Given - Jacy Morris</li><li>Shiver Soft Feathers - L'Erin Ogle</li><li>A Touch of the Wind - Frances Pauli</li><li>The Sky was Made for Wings - Michael Reed</li><li>Going Home - Martin Westlake</li><li>For All That Is And Still Lives - Lisa Fransson</li><li>A Bird Afraid of Feathers - B. Morris Allen</li></ul><p></p>