The Ninth Life of Missy by Raj Shankar follows May Calloway, a twenty-three-year-old sitting in a half-packed Greenport apartment, days away from a one-way move to Ireland. Her carefully closed-off world is turned upside down when her rescue cat, Missy, suddenly starts talking to her...

The Last Pirouette: A Novel in Three Acts by Janette DeFelice is an artistically crafted work of literary fiction, chronicling Delia and her mother, Victoria. Victoria’s dreams have always dominated Delia’s life. Having failed as a dancer, Victoria returns to her small hometown and takes...

In Gary A. Keith’s The Mansions on Woodlawn Boulevard, Google executive Ted Jenkins decides that the grand homes lining his historic West Austin street deserve single-digit addresses that match their stature. His proposal draws the neighbors together, yet a routine look at old property records...

The Reliable Narrator by Grace Sammon follows Darby Small as she struggles to survive. Darby is a ghostwriter living quietly in Croton-on-Hudson who has spent her entire life becoming invisible. It first started in her own family, then in the pages of other people's books....

In Curt Canfield’s The Errors of Mankind, retired Marine Will Barnes sets out to trace his mother’s German ancestry and discovers Johann Knoske, a ninety-one-year-old relative who once served in the Waffen-SS. Their meetings draw Will beyond family genealogy as he begins testing Johann’s account...

Ursula Bloom is the editor of a gutter rag with flagging sales. Desperate to have a win, she decides to print a fake news story about celebrity children’s author Emmie Hobson. The story starts small: a doctored image of an overweight child who died 30...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

In Sean Esson’s The Flour Girl, Frankie Jones wakes up in an alley with searing pain, a corpse for company, and no memories. An unblinking, smirking stranger called Salvius delivers the verdict: Frankie is dead, and purgatory is not a place for mindless waiting. Salvius...

Anna Lamnari’s The Last Labor is set in the legendary Mycenaean age, when Herakles returns to Mycenae believing ten years of punishment have bought back his life. King Eurystheus has other plans. After rejecting two completed labors, he orders his cousin to steal Hera’s golden...

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...