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Hope Is Not Passive
Edited by Meagan Friedman
In worlds broken by war, silence, tyranny, exile, and loss, hope survives—not as a fragile wish, but as an act of defiance.
A guardian angel bends the rules to save a life. A refugee carries the seed of a sacred tree into an uncertain future. A robot chooses compassion over programming. Women flee oppression in search of freedom. Daughters confront inherited violence. Lost magic stirs again through journals, prayers, artifacts, memory, and love.
From distant planets to post-apocalyptic oceans, from hidden witches to resistance fighters, the stories in HOPE IS NOT PASSIVE explore what it means to keep going when the world says you shouldn’t. These twenty-one speculative fiction stories remind us that hope is not naïve—and it is never idle.
In these pages, hope is not passive. It fights, rebuilds, remembers, and endures.
Coming August 25, 2026!
Meet the Authors
"Cornsilk"
"Finding the Lost Quiet"
"Hope Is The Thing With Embroidery Thread"
"In Equal Measure"
"Jezebel"
"Keeping Bargains"
"Project_Golem"
"Today I Learned"
"Shift Change"
"Add the Tinder, Fan the Coals"
"Where to Bury a Body"
"The Archipelago of Memories"
"Ghosts and Futures"
"The Burning of the Ancestor Tree"
"The Craftswoman"
"A Spark at Stone Snow Prison"
"The Day the Gates Closed"
"The Icarus Enforcer"
"Threads of Potential"
"We're All Here Now, Together"
"Your Guardian Angel™"