a collection of Christian short stories from young Christian authors 

Voices Of The Future: Stories of Adventure and Imagination

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Voices of the Future: Stories of Adventure and Imagination 

A short story collection about adventure and imagination sure to suck you in and leave you spellbound. I loved getting to read all these stories from Christian writers with a dream of writing good books. I love how there were multiple genres and age groups (my favorite was the middle grade stories)! 

Overall there were SO many stories I loved that I know I will come back to again and again! A few were a miss but I’m surprised by how many stories I truly loved in this collection! 

I’m excited to see what these young authors do in the future! 

My favorite of the stories: 

• The Hungry Woods 
• The poet who lived at Pickpocket Lane 
• Sapling of the sea 
• What lies beneath the skin 
• Lost in the library 
• The sword rose 

The teddy handbook

★ ★ ★

A Toy Story like story. I think it needed more context and explanation in parts of the story. That being said, Fred was awesome!

The sisters of Starford Pointe 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

This was such a wonderful story! I loved the sisters together, the lighthouse setting, and how the girls grow up in this story! 

The Hungry Woods 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

This was such a beautiful and whimsical story! Victoria has such a beautiful and unique writing style that instantly pulled me in and had me at the edge of my seat. The characters were delightful, the pies interesting, and the woods dark and whimsical. I loved that there was adoption in this story! That instantly makes this my favorite (along with the beautiful story)! 

I can’t wait to read more from this author! 

The first adventure 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

Such a good superhero story! The characters were all so fun. I love all the superpowers and taking animals! I think kids will love this story! 

What lies beneath the skin 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

A wonderful scary kids story with twists and turns sure to be a favorite for kids who like good scary stories! I loved the book references! 

Funny story, I was reading this story alone outside in the evening. I was fully immersed in the story that I didn’t even notice when my dad came outside. He called my name for dinner and gave me a jump scare, lol. I was fully into this story! 

Sapling of the sea 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

What a lovely story! I love the underwater setting, the mermaids, the plants, and all the characters! This is such a wonderful story I think is perfect for children/MG! I would love even a whole book from this world! 

I can’t wait to read more from this author! 

The sword rose 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

This was such a wonderful tale of family love and tournaments (like The Captive Maiden by Melanie Dickerson or A Knights Tale). What are your values? What is important to you? I thought this story answered those questions nicely in a wonderful story about a young man choosing to fight to provide for his family’s future or be present with them now. 

Ghost in the garden 

★ ★ 

A ghost girl story. While I liked the house and how it reminded me of the enchanted home in Encanto, I’m not one for liking ghost or haunted house stories. I’m just not the target audience. 

The River’s Lullaby 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

This was a really good story! I love the setting and the resolution at the end! I can see readers really loving the characters and relating to Averic as he struggles to know what to do. Does he stay with his likely dying mother and newborn sister or does he venture across the river to save his captured father? I think this would also be perfect for MG readers.

Willow, Zillow, and Smith 

★ ★

Not sure I like all the magic elements. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good fantasy story with magic but this one felt confusing about the message regarding magic. 

I will say that I do love little Rosie the elf! So cute! 

Lost in the library 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

A story of a magical library and a girl and her brother looking for a wish to write a story! What a lovely story! I absolutely loved the magic library with talking books, moths, twisting trees as bookshelves, and a wish to write a story to make a sibling’s dreams come true! 

The journal in the attic 

★ ★ ★ ★ 

*cries* 

Having lost a very close grandparent, this hit close to home. A beautiful story of grief and healing that is emotional to read. 

If you’ve gone through a hard loss of a loved one this may be triggering to read. 

Every second with you 

★★★

Really cute story of priorities and love! 

The poet who lived in pickpocket lane 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

This was such a beautiful, magical, and heartbreaking story of loss and the magic of words! I loved the magical realism elements where writing poetry is really magic. Where you can feel and see the words come to life. How it can bring joy or pain to those who read. The concept was amazing! Honestly, I would love to read a whole novel about something like this! 

Thank You For Reading   

Thank you for being here and for being a part of my life! I hope you are all having a wonderful rest of your day! I’ll see you in the next one!

Love, Moriyah