Nothing Exists Alone
In 2022, we introduced a new book series, Nothing Exists Alone. It challenged writers to explore themes of climate change freshly. The inaugural title, What Happened Was by Katherine Haake, was released on earth day 2023.
For its next iteration, Nothing Exists Alone returns as a collection of short stories—each powerfully voiced, lyrically written, and alive to the emotional intensity of our changing world.
Submissions for 2025 are now closed.
SERIES EDITOR: HANNA GUIDO
Solar Blue
By: Lucy A. Kulwieć
series: Nothing exists alone | 2025
A young solar panel saleswoman drifts through exhaustion and self-doubt in Dublin, her encounter with an elderly client stirring questions of purpose, legacy, and environmental futility. In lyrical, sensory prose, the story traces her quiet unraveling, from professional veneer to elemental surrender, until the cold sea offers her a fleeting, wordless absolution.
Preserve
By: E.E. Murray
series: Nothing exists alone | 2025
A lyrical meditation on language, naming, and transformation, this piece weaves together Nabokov, butterflies, wolves, and words themselves into a hall of mirrors. It unravels how stories, like species, evolve through misnaming and myth—where every lupine carries both predator and bloom, both science and fable.