13 Short Stories of Longing

COMING JUNE 2026!

When Adam R. Nettesheim began writing short stories for Cultivating Magazine in 2019, he had no thought of writing them all with a common theme. But as he was invited to put them together in a printed compilation, it became clear that longing was the common thread that wove them all together.

13 Short Stories of Longing follows characters through grief and hardship, but each points towards something beyond their present circumstances. Sometimes those longings are met by the end of the story, sometimes hope is all they are left with, but each declares that there is something beyond what is visible to the eye that pulls our hearts upward, when all else pulls it back.

The hope of any story in this beautiful paperback is to invite the readers to consider where all our longings might truly find what they pointed us to all along, even when it’s hardest to see.

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