The Best of 2023 Stories that Upend Genre Conventions

This anthology showcases 21 genre-busting stories to surprise even the most avid reader. Discover what talented authors can do with urban fantasy, westerns, romance, horror, sci-fi, mysteries, thrillers, and dystopian fiction. This collection proves that genre fiction doesn't need to stay in one lane.

• The repentant villain from a high fantasy tale goes on a blind date with a disillusioned heroine from a rom-com romance.

• In the height of the 80's tech boom, a teen boy finds his missing brother at the heart of an apocalypse.

• From inside a psychiatric ward, a girl named Goldie tells her side of an encounter with the three bears.

• A wise-cracking detective seeks the missing Goddess of Spring.

• An interview with a werewolf, a vampire, and Frankenstein's monster goes horribly wrong.

• What do you do when you wake up to find your wife grew tentacles overnight?

• A cowboy and a talking raven take a wild and wacky ride on the back of a velociraptor.

• After a kaiju attack, the citizens of Houston try to make sense of their changed world.

• Aboard a drowned space station, a former police officer must solve the murder of a woman she loathed.

• A golem travels to a small Western town to confront an ancient enemy and save his dearest friend.

• A frustrated reader becomes intrigued when the protagonist resists the call to adventure.

• The Russians must probe their unconscious operative's memory to retrieve crucial information.

• A mysterious horse gallops across a ruined land on a quest for revenge.

• In the slums of Rio de Janeiro, an apprenticed mage discovers she has the skill to break the world.

• A murder has been committed aboard a starship -- and it looks like a banshee is responsible.

• Trying to acclimate to her new life in Japan, an American finds solace in the company of a water spirit.

• A linguistics student decoding alien communications discovers why his predecessor disappeared.

• A luchador takes on werewolves in a fun WW2 alternate historical fiction adventure.

• Can changing literary classics change the course of human events? One devious literary aficionado wants to find out.

• A South African city houses an insatiable beast -- until its keeper takes a costly risk.

Each entertaining tale offers you a chance to discover a new author of unconventional fiction that twists the tropes and crosses genre boundaries.

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