“If I’ve read a more deeply impressive, beautiful, sweeping, mindful, and innovative first novel than Alistair McCartney’s The End of the World Book, I have no memory of it. McCartney is a writer of peerless, brilliant originality and pure, giant talent.” —Dennis Cooper, author of The Sluts and God Jr.
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"In Nopalito, Texas: Stories, David Meischen is attuned to the quiet crises upon which a person's life turns. In clear, poignant, and often poetic language, we see the residents of a small South Texas town--daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, neighbors, friends, outsiders--pushing against the limits of their lives. Stubbornness, devotion, confusion, pride, and anger see them through the internal upheavals and seismic shifts of loss and grief. And at the end, you'll sigh deep and long and wonder at having held so much life, so much humanity, in such a slender volume." - ire'ne lara silva, author of flesh to bone
“In his third collection, Stories of the New West, Evan Morgan Williams covers elemental ground, mountains and deserts, cringe-worthy adolescent humiliation, sad adult failure, the lives of so-called refugees, so-called locals, creating a world of rogues who insist on making their own way, all the while yelling, “Hell no!” and throwing precious gifts into the fire, into the river, into the sky.” -Mary Rechner, author of story collection Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women and novella The Opposite of Wow
Read MoreThese stories portray hardships of characters who come from a variety of backgrounds, especially Native Americans and others from the Pacific Coast. With his vivid descriptions of these characters and their experiences, Williams explores their psyches and personal struggles, but common themes tie these stories together in ways that invite readers to see their own struggles and relationships in new ways.
Read More“Laurel Everywhere is a deeply moving, startlingly real examination of trauma, tragedy, and the indefatigable strength of the human spirit when confronted with a world that won’t stop turning in the face of loss.” - Ava Morgan, Resurrection Girls
Read MoreThe death of Holland Adler was unexpected, but time moves on in this coastal town - for some more than others. In the still of a Friday afternoon, Lena Khalil looks around Kindred Spirits + Coffee; a melancholic English teacher flips through essays, and the property owner's assistant talks to a muralist about the blank blue wall. Elsewhere, two sisters get ready for a night out, a woman helps her husband with his crossword puzzle, and a wayward traveler returns home. Life intersects at Kindred, just as Holland hoped it would - hosting various vignettes of love, loss, and what it's like to live in the aftermath.
Read More“At BookCrossing, books are registered and released with an individual tracking number. A good many drop off the radar and then turn up years later at the strangest of places. In Crossing Paths, the main character Jane disappears - for the other characters who are worried about her the clues to where she might be are on her BookCrossing bookshelf. Russell Dark, a book store owner and Jonathan Fairlight, a new age writer, begin to track her through the books she leaves behind. Within these pages eight people who cross paths with Jane Townsend will have their lives changed forever.”
Read More“It is October 1937 and Vere, Roger and John all catch the 10am Taronga Zoo ferry, interested to see why they have been invited to stay at The Hermitage on Sydney Harbour. Despite the beauty of the Hermitage, Roger quickly discovers that no-one can leave and all three guests are having trouble with their memory. Vere, a lover of mysteries, decides they are trapped in a locked room mystery of their own, but can she solve it before it is too late?”
Read More“Tomaree is a World War II love story set in Australia. In 1942 Peggy Ashburn meets an American soldier, First Lieutenant Tom Lockwood, who is based at the Shoal Bay Country Club, Port Stephens. The attraction between them is immediate and intense and the couple enlist the help of Peggy's neighbour, Sarah Linden, to act as go-between. By 1972 when Peggy arrives back home from the US for the funeral of her estranged mother, her marriage is in tatters and she has a lot of soul-searching ahead of her. When she begins to go through her mother's house she discovers not only a letter that has been lost for thirty years but that her mother kept an incredible secret from her.”
Read More“WHAT IS BELIEF? What is it to believe in something, anything? And how far are you willing to go for that belief? Atlanta Police Detective Jonathan Wind believes in truth, but otherwise he doesn’t normally have time for questions like these; he has crimes to solve and killers to catch. But this case is different. This case will challenge everything he s ever thought or known. It s also personal.”
Read More“Rothacker’s fresh take on ancient symbolism, cutting characters, and doomsday clock-like cadence strikes a death chord from genesis to cessation.” — Hillary Leftwich, author, poet, and founder of Al·che·my Author Services
Read More“Jordan A. Rothacker’s Gristle reads like episodes of The Twilight Zone if written by Krzysztof Kieslowski. There are moments that we think of as ordinary, detailing loneliness, intellectual frustration, unrequited love. But there is a spark of something in them, whether you want to call it divinity or magic, that brings a notion to the human condition, that these moments are not to be let to pass without knowing their weight. They are quiet, but not ordinary.” —Pam Jones
Read MoreTowards the end of 2017, Spaceboy Books, a publisher of fine science fiction, released a book called My Shadow Book by someone named Maawaam and edited by Jordan A. Rothacker. Primarily a publisher of fiction, this addition to the Spaceboy catalog is perhaps mysteriously something more than fiction.
Read More“Part of the joy of reading The Pit, and No Other Stories is seeing how these seemingly disparate threads come together—which often happens in unexpected ways.” — Tobias Carroll, The Brooklyn Rail
Read More"Assistant Sacred Detective Edwina Casaubon and her Sherlock Holmes-like mentor, Sacred Detective Rabbi Jakob “Thinkowitz” Rabbinowitz, who we met for their first harrowing case together in The Death of the Cyborg Oracle, are back to solve another future noir mystery in The Shrieking of Nothing."
Read MoreFiction Editor Madeleine Sardina’s stories are rooted in transformation - physical, emotional, or environmental. From a werewolf suffering the monthly change a girl growing up in a town that wants her dead to a black hole struggling with its place in the universe, each story is built from a body discontent.
Read MoreA five-book mystery series in which the main character, Anne Hardaway, a lifelong resident of Oceanside Heights, N.J., who ghosts on such books as Mary Lou Popper's Household Guide for People Who Hate to Clean. When an old flame returns to town and promptly drowns under mysterious circumstances, Anne brandishes her encyclopedic knowledge about homes and their inhabitants to track down the murderer.
Read More“Mostly the stories transpire in what might reasonably be called working-class settings. They’re inhabited by a range of peculiar characters, many of them troubled and distressed, some of them near death, all of them ingenuously sprung from Sims’ singularly rich and fertile imagination.” - Hank Stanton
Read More“A collection of short fiction by the award-winning writer Alina Stefanescu in which the author brings an immigrant's sharp eye to the American way of life. In prose that reminds us of the best of Grace Paley, Every Mask I Tried On is by turns smart, funny, and profound.”
Read More“Wikswo's singular lines strike like the tone of a bell, resonating across pages . . . The stories . . . take the reader on a journey where myth, mystery, and the impossible have never seemed more real.” ―Publishers Weekly
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