Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Saltwater Cure | 2013 | Clare Beams | Buy |
| 2 | All the Keys to All the Doors | 2016 | Clare Beams | Buy |
Clare Beams’s short fiction showcases the same interests that drive her novels: the body as a site of mystery, the desire for transformation, and the thin line between hope and self-deception. The Saltwater Cure (2013) follows a teenager working at a health resort where guests bathe in marsh waters hoping to cure their ailments, and it was originally published through Amazon’s Day One literary journal.
All the Keys to All the Doors (2016) continues Beams’s exploration of strange premises grounded in emotional truth. Her short stories offer compact, atmospheric reads for anyone interested in literary fiction that is not afraid to get a little weird.