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...

Michael’s father has recently passed away, and his brother Roy delivers one final request from their dad: an old shoebox full of family memories. Nothing in the shoebox appeals to Michael except an old dictaphone and some tapes. There’s nothing remarkable on the tapes, but...

In Wade Prull’s Black Tank, Gary is a former infrastructure specialist who has spent four years traveling alone in the motorhome he chose with his wife Claire. At Ridgeline State Park, the afternoon light matches a place Claire once circled in their road atlas, but...

Homes by Hayden Thompson follows Dr. George Harrington over more than two decades as an epidemiologist who leaves his comfortable life in France for public health assignments across Asia. Being a single father means George has to balance demanding fieldwork with raising his twelve-year-old son,...

In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...

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...

In Paul Martin Midden’s Simple People, Ahmed Winslow has built a quiet life as a Missouri truck driver, keeping his distance from family while secretly producing counterfeit currency in the basement of his rented house. When a plan to filter the money through banks in...

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

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...