
Genre:
Anthology / Short Story
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Age Gap
Dark Fantasy
Dark Romance
Disguised as a Man
Dual Timeline (Past and Present)
Fairytale
Ghosts
Grumpy / Sunshine
Historical
Humor / Comedy
Ice Queen
Magic
Paranormal Encounters
Quirky Characters
Revenge
Secret Society
Heat Level:
Fade to Black (sex scenes are mostly implied and use euphemistic language)
Archetypes:
Angel / Demon
Chef / Caterer / Baker / Foodie
Fae / Fairy
Ghost / Spirit
Small Business Owner
Vampire
Witch
Writer/ Author
Geographic Location:
United Kingdom: England
United States: New England / Northeast
Fantasy or Fictional Setting
Setting:
Afterlife / Underworld
Bakery / Sweet Shop / Cafe
Forest
Historical
Island
Manor House / Estate
Old West / Frontier
Restaurant / Diner / Food Truck
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Queer
Androgynous
Soul Food Stories
An Otherworldly Feast for the Living, the Dead, and Those Who Have Yet to Decide
By Anna Burke and Jenn Alexander, Jacob Budenz, Virginia Black, Cathy Pegau, Ann McMan
Sapphic stories for Halloween. Bywater Books authors take you on a fascinating journey through their Allhallows imagination.
Salem West and Christel Cogneau have assembled a powerhouse lineup of Bywater Books and Amble Press authors to explore, subvert, and reinvigorate the bountiful feast of Allhallows phantasmagoria in this stunning collection.
To the living, “soul food’ has a very specific meaning, history, and flavor. But what does “soul food” mean to the demon, ghost, fiend, witch, spirit, or vampire? How does their ingenuity and wit rise and fall in the taking, baking, erasing, embracing, and defacing of sustenance?
West and Cogneau have challenged their authors to explore these and other questions in surprising and fascinating ways. Sometimes sweet and other times terrifying, sometimes warm or otherwise demented, these stories set the table for an otherworldly feast of delight and intrigue.
Let the banquet begin . . .
Soul Food Stories is packed with literary confections by award-winning authors, Anna Burke, Jenn Alexander, Jacob Budenz, Virginia Black, Cathy Pegau, and Ann McMan.
Featured stories include:
- “The Five-Year Revenge Agency” by Anna Burke
- “Tilly’s Tarts” by Jenn Alexander
- “Of the Air and Land” by Jacob Budenz
- “Ravenous” by Virginia Black
- “In Speary Wood” by Cathy Pegau
- “Perhaps You MIssed My Signs” by Anna Burke
- “Ghost Writer” by Ann McMan