Words are powerful. They can help and hurt, comfort or coerce. They can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

What do you think of when you hear the phrase “out of this world?”

We asked writers and artists from across the Bedford Public Library System that very question in the spring of 2026, and they submitted their interpretations for this collection. Where one might think extraordinary, another might think extraterrestrials.

Dive into the inaugural anthology of creative works and experience a whole new world.