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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 …

About the Book: This bracing, intelligent debut tackles the strangeness of growing up, the joys and difficulties of breaking away from family, and our sometime …

Sarabande Books http://sarabandebooks.org Buzzfeedcalled You Should Pity Us Instead one of the “most exciting new books of 2016.” We totally concur.  Shelf Unbound: These stories …

Random House http://penguinrandomhouse.com Following in the steps of Richard Ford and Annie Proulx, Wink is the American West’s newest star storyteller.  Shelf Unbound: The title …