OUR BLOG.

Author Interviews, Book Recs, Excerpts and more

One More Day By Kelly Simmons In her third novel, One More Day, Kelly Simmons deftly demonstrates that she is an author who is not …

Arc by Melissa Bull Plastic strips sluice up and down December beams string against the white parchment the mismatched chairs the buckwheat pancakes while blinds …

Derkowski’s memoir of working as a tree planter in the clear-cut forests of Canada is a riveting piece of literature.  Rocks Mills Pressrocksmillspress.com Shelf Unbound: …

Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers Liksom, a painter and filmmaker, creates a cinematic travelogue of a woman …

Six poems from the Lambda-award winning author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures and When I Was Straight Red Hen Press Redhen.org Shelf Unbound: You …

Reading John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” by Charles May may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com Two of John Cheever’s best known early stories, “Torch Song” and “The Enormous Radio,” are outright …

Bookmarked: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five By Curtis Smith The Bookmarked series is a new line of books from IG Publishing in which lesser-known authors meditate on …

Oh, Vancouver by Elee Kraljii Gardiner The city is one big in-law suite,  Crowded by natural beauty, and lonely.  My friend feels bad about being …

About the Book: Long ago, the guinea pig race lived together in a city on the coast. But when a storm came from the sea, …

veryshortfiction.com Featured in June/July 2016 Issue: Short Stories Caught myself thinking life was not so bad. I’m sitting on a plane wearing silk shorts instead …