UNKNOWN

Virtual unrealities, lovelorn cyborgs, talking condoms, avian obsessions, time-hopping infidelities, and literally explosive passions: Romance fiction gets a fantastical makeover in this anthology of 19 new tales of love's complicated labors, lusts, losses, and limerance.

Featuring great works of fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, whimsy, tragedy and romantic trouble by Ruth Crossman, Heather Sager, Jamie Hittman, Elizabeth Stix, Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Jenny Bitner, Marguerite Hogan, Claire Anderson, Enya Mayne, Loren Rhoads, Veronica Montes, Joe Belarge, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, Brittani Jenee' Cal, Liam Hogan, Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman, Katie Kent, Alethea Eason, and Angela Liu.

Jenny Bitner's fiction and poetry has been published in Mississippi Review, The Fabulist, The Sun, Fence, Corium, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, and PANK. Pine Press published a chapbook of her poetry entitled Mother. Her story "The Pamphleteer" was published in Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her work was also included in the anthology Writing That Risks. Her nonfiction has appeared in Utne Reader, To-Do List, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Men's Health. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Virginia. She is also a certified hypnotherapist. Her novel Here Is A Game We Could Play was published in 2021 from Acre Books.

MEG POKRASS is the author of eight flash fiction collections, including Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Book Award, 2021) and The Loss Detector (Bamboo Dart Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions 2022 and the Wigleaf Top 50 2022, and has been anthologized in 3 Norton anthologies of flash fiction: Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton, 2015), New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018), and Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton) Co., 2023). She is the series co-editor of Best Microfiction.