Recommended Reading: Missing Persons.
READ AN EXCERPT Excerpt from “Longest Night of the Year” Sex. That’s all Cameron had really wanted. Uncommitted, internet-facilitated sex and maybe a little conversation. But the woman he brought home—his online date, his supposed match—hasn’t emerged from his guest room since she went into it three nights ago, locking the door behind her. She […]
Recommended Reading: The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories.
READ AN EXCERPT Excerpt from “Ten Penny”From The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories by Wendy J. FoxWinner of the 2014 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction M. used to come to me late at night, when he was stinking from the bar, all the alcohol and cigarettes and the heavy smell of desperation […]
Recommended Reading: Homesick.
READ AN EXCERPT Damian and Amelia had four meetings with production companies who wanted to option the book. The first three studios all pitched different versions of the same story—his story: an intrepid activist/scientist discovers a cave full of the fossilized remains of an ancient society of large intelligent weasels. The cave is in danger […]
Recommended Reading: White Dancing Elephants.
READ AN EXCERPT In the back of the house there is a corner room that does not open onto the lush and well-tended garden. Its shutters are indolent eyelids opening and closing with the wind. Light comes in small beams from the courtyard where pots are being washed. A woman is sweeping dirty water away […]
Recommended Reading: A Girl Goes into the Forest
READ AN EXCERPT We never go dancing anymore—a common complaint among couples who’d been together a while. She and James hadn’t gone back to the park dances in the three years they’d been together. But James loved to dance, he’d said. His enjoyment had been obvious that night, and she’d seen no hint of his […]
Recommended Reading: Good People.
READ AN EXCERPT We are in a boat but there’s no captain, no crew of any kind. I do know bow and stern and starboard and port and I know the hull and that the captain always goes down with his ship, but you have to know navigation to be a captain and I don’t […]
Recommended Reading: Are You Here For What I’m Here For?
READ AN EXCERPT I was kissing her again, and when I opened my eyes her eyes were wide open. She looked beautiful and frail: the hollows of her cheekbones, those enormous eyes which, in my memory, would gaze back at me like the eyes of a religious icon or a Keane picture. “What’s wrong?” she […]
Recommended Reading: Tacoma Stories.
READ AN EXCERPT “Your profile said you moved down here recently,” he said. “How’s it going so far? I’ve been here for twenty years myself.” He could feel himself pushing, and placed his fingers on the stem of his wineglass. She was actually prettier than her profile photos. When did that ever happen? Angela had […]
Recommended Reading: True Ash.
READ AN EXCERPT If trees could talk, you said. If they could tell us what they saw. But if you didn’t want to talk about it, why would a tree? We walked in the arboretum as if nothing had happened. Past Japanese Maples, Witch Hazels, Legumes. Through Pinetum and across the stone footbridge. The math […]
Book Review: High Flying
A Dramatic Journey to the Past That Changes the Course of the Future Skyler Haines is a bitter teenager who suffers from depression as a result of feeling completely lost and like she doesn’t fit into the world in which she lives. Who could blame her? Eight years earlier, her father, a pilot and drug […]