Water is a collection of stories by Valerie Fox, Pia Goddard, Joyce Hertzoff, Joanna Kania, Shaun Levin, Pawel Lucian Lugiewicz, SJ Lyon, Bob Merckel, Cynthia Saunders Reed, Zurina Saban, Ann Tudor, Rachel Wolcott, and Holly WoodwardFrom a garden in Cardiff to an island off the edge of Senegal, from the steppes of Russia to a park in Cadiz, these stories, some lighthearted, some heartbreaking, will take you on journeys to places imagined and real, places that reflect the richness of the everyday and the versatility of the literary imagination. Honest and hopeful, the thirteen stories in this collection are intensely physical in the different ways that they carry us across the rocky terrain of adolescence, love, history and human connection. The themes reflect the wide spectrum of writers in Water, all of whom draw on a wealth of influences and lived geographies.

"Water enthrals the reader with entire fictional worlds that are touching and haunting. These stories expand the idea of what a short story can do, and ripple with mystery and wonder." Meg Pokrass, author of First Law of Holes