Eight days out of Norway with home just thirty miles off the bow, six Danish sailors watch a routine coal run become a nine-day fight against a North Sea gale that strips their ship down to nothing but a hull and a will to survive. Based on the true 1892 wreck of the Hermann, this is a story about what's left of a man when the sea takes everything except the last few feet between him and a lit window.

Long after humanity has abandoned Earth, an aging astronomer remains alone at a mountaintop observatory, determined to witness the universe until its final light. As the stars begin to disappear, observation itself becomes the mystery.

Nine hundred and forty million people are already doomed. Commander Mira Kwon has one chance to make their deaths mean something—and a one-in-three chance that it works.

On the eve of his retirement, a legendary museum curator spends one final night with the successor determined to remake everything he has spent a lifetime protecting. As they walk the galleries together, certainty itself becomes the artifact under examination.

After a secret weekend away, a successful executive and her much younger lover find themselves pulled into an argument about age, sacrifice, and the stories each generation tells itself. But beneath every accusation lies a truth neither woman is willing to name. As dawn approaches, the conversation strips away every convenient illusion, forcing them to confront the devastating reality that has been waiting between them all along.

A Pulitzer winner hides in a locked Highland lodge to avoid finishing a book that's been dying for twenty-two years. Something is waiting there that already knows how it ends.

Four months after Diane's death, Ezra goes to Ruby Beach with a bottle, a bag, and a text message he's never had the courage to delete.

Content note: this story deals with grief and suicidal ideation.

Rome had never lost a legion. Then the forest ate one — and kept a survivor alive to explain why.