For a Limited Time Only
By Peng Shepherd
A time-traveling salesman searches for the moments that truly matter in this poignant short story from nationally bestselling author Peng Shepherd.
Russ commutes to work—not across town but through time. An ambitious employee stuck in Oracle Marketing Solutions’ mundane “near past” division, he longs for the excitement of ancient eras and distant futures.
But Oracle’s secretive management has refused every one of his transfer requests, and Russ can’t understand why… until he makes a devastating discovery about his own timeline.
The Future Library
By Peng Shepherd
Forthcoming translations: Chinese, Dutch
“[A] lovely exploration of various conceptions of immortality… beautiful while also being melancholy.” —A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling
“I had to stop reading for a while and take a walk around my neighborhood to decompress. [This story] got under my skin in the best and worst way.” —Alex Brown, Ignyte award-winning critic
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world.
Inspired by the real-life Framtidsbiblioteket, a long-term literary and environmental public art project underway in the Norwegian wilderness.