Olivares’ narratives theorize how we can exist and act in the world given how we conceptualize the uneasy state of our bodies… read more

This short story collection is inspired by the heady mix of sex, celebrity, and sinisterness inherent in the metropolitan cities of the 1980s… read more

Set in Oklahoma, the stories in this collection are sharp, precise, and surprising… read more

Brian Booker’s excellent collection of stories presents an ambiguous modern world where characters live shadow-lives of alienation… read more

John McManus’s new collection Fox Tooth Heart is a gripping, often tragic meditation on the vast distance between inner life and outer expectations… read more

At its best, Kirstin Valdez Quade’s new collection of stories, Night at the Fiestas, sidesteps cliché but keeps the grandeur of her setting by transposing it to her characters—people big as myth, opaque as Scripture… read more

Syms’ fallible crew may not be the wisest and self-knowing of creatures, but they’ve got endurance to spare…. read more

“Eccentric and precise, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories assembles twenty six stories from Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson…”… read more

“I’m also not big on motive. I write one sentence at a time, then the next, and allow my creative juices to flow, take the story where it goes. I never have an ending in mind. That happens as I write.”… read more

Many of us grew up with stories which ended with the words, “and they lived happily ever after.” We never knew the rest of the story… how  they managed to live happily ever after. Love Burns Bright is a compilation of short stories which tell the rest of the story. These are mature couples who show,… read more