Short Fiction

Growing Pains

Growing Pains presents five microchapbooks in one volume. Each microchapbook threads coming-of-age anguish and popular culture references throughout, which lends for a cathartic experience of our youth through these powerful micro-chapbooks.

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The Grief Lottery

Reading Becca Yenser’s new collection, The Grief Lottery, is like looking down into a trash-strewn alley and finding the glitters of hope and joy in the mere act of living.

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Something Dead in Everything

Something Dead in Everything—a collection of flash fiction that explores the intricacies, intimacies, and strangeness of grief, in whatever form it may take; in it the reader is weaved into the fabric of everything and nothing at once—unsettling, dark truths meet the numbness we will all come to understand one day.

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Flight Instinct

Flight Instinct is a collection of short stories that explores characters who are feeling trapped in the circumstances of life. They struggle to express their true identities and desires, and ultimately find small ways to reckon with big choices. They yearn for what...

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A World Beyond Cardboard

A gang of beached octopuses, a flat stripped bare, a dead husband appearing in condensation, a sip of Soju and a secret, an egg boiling in a pan…

A World Beyond Cardboard collects twelve of Jonathan Cardew’s award-winning micro stories, each investigating a character or characters at crisis points, in worlds at once familiar and in the end very strange.

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We Love in Small Moments

The most beautiful moments are when we love and see love in unexpected places. We Love in Small Moments is a collection of snapshots into love, however that looks for you.

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Manifold

Travis Cravey’s short fiction arrives like a punch. His stories are lean, hard, and deeply insightful about the human condition. Read this book now, remember it forever.

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Mother Figures

Amy Barnes has a knack for what Jennifer Pieroni has called “smart surprise.” Each of these mother/daughter stories grabs the attention with its first sentence then continues to wrongfoot the reader willfully as it proceeds. The stories are focused, lean, yet packed with unexpected details—stigmata, plastic eyes, industrial bras, a watermelon called Trudy, vulture balloons. Barnes has a voice that is entirely her own.

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Covenants

In these 14 flash stories, you’ll find characters risking their lives and striving in a dystopian world. Will they flourish and crumble like the buildings around them? Dean writes with sharp prose and keen insights into the desires and challenges of being human in a disappearing world.

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