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Good Catholic Girl

Feb 20, 2023 | Novella/Novelette

Kathleen Mazzetti has transferred to a small Catholic high school in the North Bronx to escape years of harassment from an older boy at Teddy Roosevelt High. It is the 1970s and neither the courts nor the police will protect her from John Rovazzi. At St. Finbarr’s, she keeps her head down, eager to avoid attention. Her classmate Paul Hanlon is sympathetic to the shy newcomer but busy with his own life of sports and friends. Then, thanks to a well-meaning priest, he learns that Rovazzi has followed Kathleen to her new school and threatened not only her but also her family. When it becomes clear that her life is truly in danger, Kathleen and Paul come up with a risky plan to stop the stalker once and for all, a plan that involves a carefully written script, the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the New York City subway system.

Like a Compass in Her Bones

Feb 20, 2023 | Novella/Novelette

After spending her childhood traversing the country with her free-spirited mother, Emily Gates has done a good job of giving her son a stable, rooted childhood on the Southside of Chicago. But as much as she tries to be “normal,” Emily has one secret: she can see the souls of the recently dead, and even helps them cross to the other side in a place she refers to as the Tunnel of Souls. When she’s called to help the dying soul of the father she never met, she realizes that maybe her definition of home has been wrong all along.

Winners & Losers

Dec 16, 2022 | Novella/Novelette

Gene McCullough is a local redneck who’s just starting to figure out what really matters, particularly as it relates to his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Darla. But what will it take for this rabble-rouser to embrace change? Winners & Losers is a story about hearts like wheels, and the limitation and loss that amplify what’s truly meaningful in our lives.

The Emily Fables

Mar 17, 2015 | Novella/Novelette

In The Emily Fables, Dickinson’s writing changes the body/the being of anyone tough enough to read what she writes, how it makes that person gasp, makes that person’s throat catch, heart skip skip a beat as word after word she nails something that has never before been nailed.

What Becomes of Ours

Mar 14, 2014 | Novella/Novelette

What Becomes of Ours maps the twisted terrain of love and marriage. Is there such a thing as too much love? Does love shrink under vows? With bewitching prose and refreshing honesty, Jeremy Broyles navigates the seductive but treacherous path lovers take when they try to sidestep loss.

The Mistake Tea Can Sometimes Make

Feb 8, 2014 | Novella/Novelette

More than the story of a life, of a marriage, Brittany Clark’s stunning novelette The Mistake Tea Can Sometimes Make is the story of a culture which too often swallows the individual up in expectation and domestic subterfuge, until we, like Julia, no longer can see our own faces no matter how hard we look in the mirrors handed to us.

Our Small Faces

Feb 8, 2014 | Novella/Novelette

Selma and Zeke are two African American youth living in a small town in Northern California. As the novelette switches between their voices, they learn the limits of love, friendship and family. Feeling trapped by their community, the constraints of race and class weigh heavy on their lives. Jamie L. Moore explores the persistence of racism and how it forces these friends to question if the boundaries already set for them determine their fate.