Project: Hug: A Pick-Your-Path Flash Fiction Escape

Choose Your Own Hug!

Times are strange and things are stressful, and the safest thing in the world, a hug, has become something fraught with risk.

Project: Hug was first released at Elva Birch's webpage as a branching narrative escape, each choice leading the reader to a unique flash fiction hug. The original version is still available at her webpage, but the project has been expanded here with more possible outcomes and put into a more convenient form for reading on the go.

Select a hug with romantic overtones, or a completely platonic hug, a hug from a child, an animal, a woman, a man, a friend, a pile of guys...even an alien or a plant! Each story is a brief, satisfying moment of comfort, sweet or spicy to your own taste.

Easy to navigate and quick to read, this collection is like an emergency hug in your pocket.

Birch Hearts is a collection of short stories and novellas by Elva Birch, full of romance, adventure, and magic.

Shifters, witches, spaceships, and swords...these stories aren't always straight, but they are always straight-up fun. They don't share a setting, but they all celebrate diversity and growth, and you know you'll get a satisfying conclusion in a bite-sized book.

And always? A touch of the impossible and irresistible.

Readers rave:

★★★★★ ...full of touching, real moments, woven with magic and unique characters.

★★★★★ Each story has the emotional power of a full fledged novel!

★★★★★ An absolutely beautiful read...