In this special issue of Cutleaf, we feature excerpts of recently released or forthcoming books followed by an interview with the author. In an excerpt from Bradley Sides’s novella, The Volcano Keeper, a young boy named Charlie finds the trajectory of his life altered by a prophecy made by his grandfather and the subsequent emergence of a volcano on his family’s rural Alabama farmland. In an excerpt from Merrill Joan Gerber’s story collection, Someone Should Know This Story, a young girl spends time with a family she has no interest spending time with. And in an excerpt from Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s novel, What Feeds Below, best friends Petra and Jade guide tourists into the Void, a massive chasm extending miles into the earth that is overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants.