Flames of Tomorrow

Stories of hope, resistance, and futures worth fighting for.

Where the Future Still Burns

Flames of Tomorrow is a free curated sampler of speculative short fiction shaped by hopepunk, climate futures, and acts of resistance, both quiet and bold. These stories do not save the world with spectacle. They stay with what survives after collapse, what endures through community, and what is rebuilt when people choose care over despair.

At Flame Arrow Publishing, we believe speculative fiction has a responsibility beyond entertainment. It can sharpen our moral courage. It can pull us back into the now. It can help us imagine futures rooted in resilience, solidarity, and stubborn hope.

If you are new to Flame Arrow, this is the best place to start.

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  • Two opening chapters: Invisible Line and Amaranth
  • One complete flash fiction by Rich Larson
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Why This Exists

We believe speculative fiction can do more than entertain. It can remind us who we are, what we protect, and what we refuse to surrender. Hope is not a mood. It is a choice, made under pressure, again and again.

Praise for Flame Arrow's Books

  • RICH LARSON, Award-winning author of Changelog and Ymir

    "Prescient a decade ago, pressing now. Invisible Line will take you to the lowest darkest places, then fly you up into the air and scatter you into joyful molecules."

  • Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

    "Nobody does short fiction like Rich Larson — each of these tiny tales is a barbed-wire curio that sparkles in an alien light."

  • LYNDA ENGLER, Author of Ice Crash Antarctica

    "[In Amaranth], the family secrets, political drama, and factions within factions give Game of Thrones a run for its money."

  • AXEL LAIGO, Author of An Afterglow of Ashes

    "[Reading Amaranth] felt like reading a poem in several parts, and I eat vivid writing styles for breakfast."

  • Ai Jiang, Nebula and Bram Stoker award-winning and Hugo award-nominated author

    “The Sky Didn’t Load Today is a multiverse of stories…Blends quirky and absurd humour with melancholy, exploring love, fear, survival, loneliness.”

  • Claudie Arsenault, author of City of Strife

    Although the future presented in Five Points on an Invisible Line is sometimes bleak, the novel is also infused with unyielding empathy and the sense of gritty hope and togetherness[…]

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Who We Are

Flame Arrow Publishing is a bilingual Canadian indie press rooted in hope and resistance.

We believe stories can change the world. Not by pretending everything's fine, but by showing what's possible when people refuse to give up. Our books explore:

  • Hope and resistance
  • Climate futures and moral courage
  • Community, solidarity, and survival
  • Stories that refuse despair

We publish in French and English, centering voices that imagine better futures without ignoring the hard truths of now.

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