This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

The Attenuating Puritan by Robert McGuiness is a work of satire that makes the reader wince, or at times laugh somewhat uncomfortably at the state of mental illness, industrial contaminants, and other factors affecting modern day America. A man who has likely suffered from bipolar...

Eric Bush’s The Meaning of Androsia is an epic odyssey that follows Ilya Erynovich Koskayin, also known throughout his two-thousand-year-old life by thirty different names. He wakes up in a train station with no memory, yet his instinct brings back skills and knowledge that can...

The Adventures of Kimo by Eric A. Javier captures the feeling of being a young child desperate to escape a mundane afternoon. Kimo is stuck at home because a thick fog has blanketed the California coast, ending any chance of his going to the beach....

Igor Stefanovic’s The Seven follows Abraham Meyer, a dying widower in Jerusalem who summons his seven adult children after a chaotic birthday party aboard the family yacht. Abraham gives each child an assignment. Each must travel to a different continent and return with a sculpture...

Clifton Wilcox’s The Black Ledger of Salem follows Eliza Harrow, whose father, Nathaniel Harrow, brings the family to Salem after leaving Andover in search of work and lodging. The town is already caught in a witchcraft panic when the Harrows arrive. The men on the...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

In Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint, Sarah Wu is a Boston neurosurgeon whose family is caught in a global rupture of time. Strange signals appear in hospital EEGs just as public reports describe birds freezing in the air and airplanes flickering midflight. When the sky...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...

The Last Poet on Wall Street by Michael Goodwin follows James Alexander, an exceptionally gifted young poet from rural Tennessee who abandons a Yale fellowship to chase riches in New York in the 1980s. Lark Campbell, someone James knew in college, recruits him, and James...