Hope Verdad Presents Short Stories About Love: Heartfelt. Provocative. Unforgettable.

WINNER—2025 THE BLUE RIDGE BLUE NIB AWARD
WINNER—2025 VIRGINIA GOLDEN NIB AWARD

Love stories as raw, complex, full, and surprising as love itself.

What would you do for love?Follow a soul across time?Die for your country?Stay in a life that's slowly destroying you?
In this rich and wide-ranging collection, love is explored in all its complexity — how it breaks us, redeems us, haunts us, and transforms us. These are stories about connection to family, to strangers, to communities, to ourselves — and what happens when those connections are severed, tested, discovered too late… or right on time.

Fiction and nonfiction woven together, each piece illuminates a different facet of our most human and powerful experiences. Stories end. Love never does.

Sometimes love destroys us. Sometimes it saves. But it always leaves its mark.