Walace Weiss, A once-famous fantasy novelist, now troubled by drug addiction, sets himself on a final two-fold quest: to finish his first novel in over a decade, and, like the immortal elves of his stories, to try and remember what, in his long life, he should not have forgotten. Part of the prestigious Open Door Series, originally designed for adult literacy in Ireland, these books confirm the truth that a story doesn't have to be big to change our world. The Sorrow of...
Dalton Rivers has owned the Bandicoots minor league team of Pickerville for the last several seasons. Mr. Rivers has decided that it was time for his oldest son, Wayne, to become the team's manager like he has always hoped for. Dalton Rivers also hopes for his son Quail to join the team as well, not for management or a position on the team's board but as a player. Quail played baseball growing up, but never wanted to play professionally. Instead, he dreamed of playing for the...
Gloria, living with her mother in a Kingston tenement yard, wins a scholarship to one of Jamaica's best girls' schools. She is the engaging narrator of the at first alienating and then transforming experiences of an education that in time takes her away from her mother, friends and the island; of her consciousness of bodily change and sexual awakening; of her growth of adult awareness of a Jamaica of class division, endemic violence and the new spectre of HIV-AIDS. The novel's...
Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions–what it means to live and date under white supremacy, to never know if one is loved or fetishized, how to navigate fierce desires and tectonic heartbreak through the rise and eventual eruption of a first queer...
Kelly Link's new collection of stories explores everything from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love. And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the pyramids. . . The Summer People is a bite-sized sample of Link's incomparable writing, telling the story of Fran, her friend Ophelia, and their adventures at the house belonging to the mysterious and rarely glimpsed 'summer people'. As the tales Fran...
Is it possible to reunite with people and places that we loved in previous lives?<br><br>As a child, Massey Roberts spends her summers in Seaside, Oregon where she and Mama rent a small cottage each year. Here, the salty warm air gives them an appetite, browns their skin to a healthy glow, and all but carries the fearful echoes of winters out to sea. For three months each year, mother and daughter live a fantasy life free and safe from Massey's abusive...
In this thought provoking follow up to Slone's first allegorical masterpiece, The Great Mystery, we are once again reminded to slow down, and be inspired by Life. <br><br>As part of an ongoing effort to shift our focus to a more interdependent reality, Slone uses this story to remind us of the world's most powerful, and universal law: "The Golden Rule." <br><br>Through both tragedy and triumph, this creative experience invites the reader...
Boone's Dock Review (1.2) is a literary review including short stories and poetry from various authors. The Spring 2012 issue brings together experimental and traditional talent from across the United States. <br><br>New to this issue is Poetry Editor, Anthony Sovak.<br><br>Fiction writers featured include: Denis Gray, Barbara Southard, Anatoly Molotkov and Raymond DiSanza. <br><br>Featured poets include: Nancy Keating, Tom Stock, Doreen Spungin, Tony...
The Black Squares Club is a gripping psycho-sexual detective novel written for the<br>mature reader. It is the second novel of the Sam Sonn series, built on the personna<br>of a hi-tech sleuth who undertakes high profile cases. This time, a serial killer<br>taunts both the police and his victims by mailing in crosswords that give clues<br>to the time and place of his next murder. Sonn attempts to unmask the killer by<br>applying his knowledge of crosswords, his...
In every life there are moments when things change and we are never the same afterward. Sometimes we make our choices with careful consideration. Other times circumstances thrust change upon us and we must act quickly. Sometimes it is only in looking back over the space of years that we realize how a small event can cause large change. We may sometimes wonder-who might we have become if we had chosen differently. But in life, there is no going back. <br><br>Mike Trial shares twelve...
Mikail Roshan Housani was a man who always got what he wanted and he had no qualms whatsoever about using abduction, rape and murder to achieve his goal which isn't surprising because he was a past master of all three and a practicing psychopath. <br><br>What he wanted now was Mrs Develin Capritzo Sarquazi Rose – Sarah and her children but it had to be accomplished before she returned to Morocco and the gathering of the Benghazi. And there was another matter; the...