The Itch of the Middling Cat by R. S. Vern is for fans of literary fiction and novels about animals. Haee is a black cat with a crooked tail. Rescued by Tom and Jane when he was a kitten, Haee wants to be useful to...

Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald is a collection of original short stories. Each story ranges in length and content, but all are about people whose lives change when water enters the equation. In The Ark Encounter, Pearl loses her house to a hurricane, then...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

In The Last Revision, Patrick Smith centers on an aging protagonist, Bill, who spends his days tracing the footsteps of his past while confined to an isolated room. Everything changes when the sudden arrival of a childhood journal forces him to look back at the...

Kerry Lee’s Roommates follows Casey, an unemployed loner who loves nothing more than peace and quiet in a rent-free house. Everything changes when the property manager, Laurence, moves in two unexpected housemates named Donald and Megan. To make matters more stressful, a huge mega-corporation named...

American Gyro by Jim Zervanos follows eighteen-year-old Johnny Demos, the grandson of a Greek restaurateur in Kornfield, Pennsylvania, after a school play gives him a first taste of acting. Papou’s death leaves the Old Kornfield Inn in Uncle Nick’s hands, and Johnny is expected to...

In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

Ours by Laciann Delacroix is a literary, deliberately fragmentary work of fiction about the relationship between Rui, the narrator, and Franco, a salesman she meets online. Rui is an equestrian and a hyper-observant designer who captures experience through sensory details of touch, taste, and smell....

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...