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“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises.

Fate sends me straight into the lion's den. Or rather, the fox's den. After my dad trespassed into a powerful fox demon's territory, our family is struck with a powerful curse. Now, to remove it, I'll have to appeal to the demon's better nature.

Heal Through Dance is an invitation to become your own healer and an ecstatic dance facilitator. Let your dance become an embodied prayer through the layers of earth, water, fire, air, sound, and light.

A step-by-step guide to forming your business, and the basics on pressure washing. This guide discusses pricing jobs, equipment, washing techniques, mix ratios, sales, marketing, and has checklists. Also included in this guide are sales washing templates, wood cleaning guides, equipment lists with suggested links for purchasing individual items, and a terms and conditions template for use with your own company. This guide is intended to help you form the basics of your knowledge, be successful, and bring things to your attention that you may not be aware of when forming a business.

When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won't help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.

From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried….

Invasive Species transports listeners to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, where U.S. Peace Corps volunteer Toni Wise takes a post in the remote village of Purgatory. She arrives, seeking peace and healing from her troubled past, with the goal of empowering local farmers. However, her plans quickly unravel as dark forces threaten the community. A wealthy landowner, desperate to protect his secrets, cuts off the village's underground water supply during severe drought.

Addressing every aspect of the illusions taught as life, from marriage to religion, Love: The Real Word of God speaks the truths of the manipulation placed upon the human race that would lead humanity to choosing its own destruction. Love and God have been defined inaccurately, to keep humanity far from love, which is God, therefore, giving control to the energy opposite of our natural existence. This series will not only break down the manipulations but also provide answers on how to change the path created for the human races destruction though control.

Cassie follows her husband Rory to live in his isolated cabin in the Catskill Mountains. She tries to write a novel while he works as a mountain guide. Then, one day, he doesn’t come home. No one in the small community will help her. Not the sheriff or his new deputy. The locals cross the road to avoid her, their eyes full of judgement.

In Nerdy Babies: Transportation, follow our intrepid babies when they’re on the go. Experience skating on rollerblades, flying on air balloons, exploring underwater in a submarine, and riding cross-country on a car. Plus, learn about how different air, land, and sea travel can be in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In Nerdy Babies: Rocks, follow our intrepid babies to the center of the earth. Check out the variety of landforms that occur around the world. Plus, learn about the layers of rock that make up the ground we walk on in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In Nerdy Babies: Ocean, follow our intrepid infants into the watery depths. Check out animals, plants, and fish that live in the ocean. Plus, learn about the unique ecosystem in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In Nerdy Babies: Weather, follow our intrepid babies into the eye of the storm. Experience sunshine, wind, rain, and other weather patterns. Plus, learn about how we predict the weather in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In Nerdy Babies: Space, follow our intrepid infants into the great unknown. Check out the moon and the sun and all the planets in our solar system. Plus, learn about gravity and orbits in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In this simple question-and-answer audio program with immersive sound design, follow our intrepid babies on an adventure into the depths of the rain forest. Take a peek into the dense foliage and uncover the millions of plants and animals that live inside. Plus, learn how to tell the difference between the kinds of rain forests—temperate and tropical—in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

In this simple question-and-answer audio program with immersive sound design, follow our intrepid babies on an adventure into the their own backyard. Discover the varieties of insects that can be found around the world—their sizes, shapes, and colors. Plus, learn how many species remain for young entomologists to discover in this simple text written in question-and-answer format. Nerdy Babies is a series that the very littlest nerds will want to return to again and again. Stay curious. There’s more to learn about everything!

In Nerdy Babies: Dinosaurs, follow our intrepid babies into the Mesozoic Era. Experience the different shapes, sizes, and colors of the reptiles that roamed the Earth before us. Plus, learn about how dinosaurs evolved over millions of years until becoming extinct.

The Foxfire Magazine, a literary journal first published in 1967 in Rabun Gap, Georgia, was founded on the belief that stories and meaning could be found in Appalachian spaces, not only in classics such as Shakespeare. Filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors, the magazine also featured interviews with relatives and neighbors. These oral histories conducted by students from the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School quickly became the star of the magazine. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive, come twenty-one oral histories from southern Appalachian women.

Meet Rayne: she ain't getting any younger, and it's slim pickens for eligible men in her tiny Wisconsin town of Taylor Falls. Her sense of adventure and encouragement by family to go out west and seek love kicks in! She travels two weeks by train and three days by a bouncy horse stagecoach that leaves her bruised and battered so she can arrive in a newly developing town called Bozeman to marry the local veterinarian whom she has never met.

Now, Katherine and the Baron have it all-love, passion, intimacy, wealth and a world of possibilities for their future. But Katherine knows that it will not be easy and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Katherine comes to realization that she longs for Buttons. She faces the challenge of suppressing her urge to regulate her emotions and thoughts about Buttons.