Yuan Yuan: 248 books

In a world where two independent bookshops close every week, Space and Time Books takes its fate into its own hands.  Well, it's a bookstore.  It doesn't actually have hands.  But it does have a Book of Spells.  And, like anyone else, Space and Time Books receives three wishes...

Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes has been told, "You look like such a sweet girl, but your writing is so violent.” She gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls," and "Mrs. Marigold's House" for...

Only boys can tell fortunes. Actually, only one boy in a thousand. Until Julia Sharpe starts a fortunetelling revolution in the wild and wacky year of 1985. Up 'til now, the only girls who told fortunes were lying, crazy, or both. But Julia has to do something before her family's fortunetelling company...

"...a medical student who is anything but ordinary... Kyla has a strange gift:  she can hear skin songs.  To her, a person's skin has a song and each person sounds differently.  On arriving at med school she finds herself in a quandary:  does the skin song continue...

Julia Sharpe predicted she’d find romance on November 22nd. Darwin Jones saunters into town, right on schedule. That thud you’re hearing?  Julia’s twelve-year-old heart dropping out of her body and into the nearest Ottawa snowbank. In the olden days, like last year,...

Parenthood meets new technology on new territory, whether that's an exiled monk shepherding an eight-year-old monk into space or the first half-bonobo, half-human hybrid venturing out of his steel room. Award-winning author and physician, Melissa Yuan-Innes, explores the strange new worlds...

Mark loves Laura, but he's got to prove it. She wants to be courted with all the usual old-fashioned things: movies, coffee, and a sacrifice. What's the big deal? Everything has to die eventually. A story that asks, "How far would you go for love?" in 1500 words. Melissa Yuan-Innes's debut short story, first published in Parsec Magazine.

Hi. I Sam. I half bonobo, half human. That make people want to kill me. I not care. I play in my steel room. But then something go very wrong. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection "affecting"-- Rich Horton, SF Site ...

Luke Gallagher rules the world as the luckiest guy on the planet. Well, not literally. But he gets the grades, the girls, and the goals ever since he rubbed the belly of the Laughing Buddha statue in Chinatown at age 13. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, or maybe Buddha’s got his back....

My mother's love has profound and lasting influences on me, I have always looked forward to being able to become the role of "mother". This is a story of mother and daughter.

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally...

From the author of Out of a Far Country, which details his dramatic conversion from an agnostic gay man who put his identity in his sexuality to a Bible professor who now puts his identity in Christ alone, comes a gospel-centered discussion of sex, desire, and relationships. Dr. Christopher...

"Your Baby Is Safe" was written for anybody who has loved and lost a little one at any age. The author, Melissa Yuan-Innes, wrote almost half a million words while struggling with her own loss, but distilled them to just these 500 words of love. D. Antonia Truesdale's sculptures...