Sarah’s story Self Care will be included in Already Gone from Alan Squire Publishing, November 14. 2023
Did you ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physically or emotionally, on foot or purely in your own mind? In Already Gone, forty of today’s most exciting writers take flight in all these ways and more. In an electrifying hybrid collection of fiction and memoir, authors such as Deesha Philyaw, Amber Sparks, and Lilly Dancyger finish what Thelma & Louise started. From a reimagined tale of Lot’s wife fleeing a burning city to a secret elopement to avoid an arranged marriage, from a mother who wins the lottery and abandons her family to a rich man’s obsessive search through space and time, from a drag queen who transforms into her fantasy to a teenager who walks the city streets at night in search of a way out, Already Gone is a collection of runaway stories that explores what it means to fly, to flee, to escape—to search for who we are. These stories and essays take us to dangerous places in order to free us from what holds us back.
To Have and to Hold by Sarah Tollok
"'They are asking if the other is sure, if they have searched their minds for any reservations, for it will soon all be laid bare.'"
All Worlds Wayfarer is a quarterly literary magazine specializing in character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. We celebrate stories that take readers on tours through wonderful and terrifying realms, evocative visions, and eye-opening new lives. When our readers come home, they should return ever so slightly changed for having made the journey. After all, the most powerful stories transcend, enlighten, and entertain at once.
Sarah had two pieces of micro fiction included in The Alien Buddha's Microdoses: short poems and flash fictions. Poetry and flash selections, 21 words or less. Alien Buddha Press, November 2022
Flower is the story a peaceful, dimension-wandering Bigfoot. Flower visits the same little girl throughout her lifetime and across different realities, and an unlikely friendship blossoms.
In Things Improbable you may find the apocalypse is not as upsetting as expected and that golems are good at carrying luggage. Look and you'll see today's divinities beside demons, along with hungry bone fairies and a bigfoot immortal.
Here a Māori monster is not quite so monstrous, and a fallen angel a bit less than angelic. You can look through the eyes of a Korean boy one spooky city night, find a rougarou cure, or solve a really very tiny library crime.
Whatever improbable things you seek, open these covers and take a peek. Ghosts, giants, and changelings await.
With more than two dozen stories, Things Improbable is edited by Atlin Merrick