In D J Colbert’s If That Was Lunch, We’ve Had It, two friends, Will and Rodney, hatch a plan on a beach as teenagers: write a book to dodge regular jobs. They spend decades avoiding traditional labor, bouncing between high-country sheep farming, hospital shifts, retail...

Imagine a world where your existence is determined by a computer script long before you can even walk. That is the reality in Ryan David Ginsberg’s In the Algorithm We Trust, a terrifying glimpse into a hyper-regulated America where the central character, Hugo Rodríguez, lives...

In Larry Lentchner’s I Should Have Known Better, retired social worker Phil Green looks back across five decades at his recurring connection with Sheila Allenberg, the woman he first meets at an Alphabet City party during the Sixties. Their attraction begins almost instantly, yet Phil’s...

I Was Angry & Now I’m At Peace by Ray Toy centers on Tybalt, a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical journalist and artist who is fighting to stay afloat amid severe emotional dysregulation. Written as a sequence of intimate journal entries, the book tracks Tybalt’s attempts to heal...

Some people leave your life but never completely leave your mind. In If I Had You by Paul G. O'Connor, Nick Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to County Clare, Ireland, before he starts college. He stays with his grandmother, Una, works at his cousin's pub, and...

In Índigo, we meet Mark, a young man just drifting through California in the '70s without much of a plan until he starts volunteering at a suicide hotline. While working the phones, he forms a really deep, anonymous bond with a caller named "Greta", a...

At forty-eight, Melissa McNulty Fairmont lives paycheck to paycheck, working a day job in Los Angeles. As a fine artist, she also sells commissioned paintings on the side and dreams of becoming a full-time artist. Her mother and two sisters, with whom she has had...

I Wasn’t Ready to Lose You by Brady E. McGiffin is a thought-provoking exploration of grief. Asher lost his grandpa, E.R., at the tender age of nine. Ever since then, he has lived with an otherworldly silence. Shortly after his grief began, he felt...

In J.E. Spina’s In a Second, Athena Stone wakes up in a hospital after a violent car crash during a storm and insists her boyfriend Justin was with her, though authorities claim she was found alone. As she recovers, fragments of memories surface that point...

Lyric Ginsberg’s Into the Breath of the Wind follows a man slowly navigating complicated relationships, including Adriana, Hunter, and Serene. The story shifts from inward reflection to emotional closeness and dreamlike scenes where imagination and reality begin to overlap in subtle, simple ways. The narrator...