In Solace Enough by Brian A. Brooks, Austin and Helen move from Texas to New York and open a photographic studio. They begin a new life after years apart and tragic losses: his mother’s death due to ovarian cancer and her family’s deaths in a...

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...

Robert Dyer’s A Small Memory is set in 1975 Ohio, where Mike arrives at Appleton College as a freshman basketball recruit and takes a live-in counselor job at a group home run through the HOPE Agency. Ted Dirksen, his best friend and roommate, already works...

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...

Carrie Kabak’s Shibby Magee unfolds in two timelines, following the identical twins Isabelle “Shibby” and Isadorah “Dorah” Magee, who are like chalk and cheese. The story starts in the 1970s when the kids are abandoned by their Traveler mother, Vera Coffey. They are raised by...

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...