Charming, manic Wally Tiparoy has done something awful to his wife, Elizabeth, and he's determined to prevent it from happening again. Knowing that his problem is too big for medication, and complex enough to baffle an entire team of psychoanalysts, Wally takes Elizabeth's Honda and puts all his faith in a therapeutic road trip from Cincinnati to Inuvik, the northernmost town on the continent. He's got a score to settle with Santa Claus, a lifetime of traumas to amend, and a marriage in need of repair. Told in letters to his wife, Wally retraces where his marriage went wrong, and recounts his encounters with diner patrons, a prayer hotline counselor, and the inventor of Memory Foam. But Wally has no more control over the momentum of his letters than he does his highway encounters, and ends up unearthing memories of his abusive grandfather, Marvin. What begins as a trip about reflection and redemption, quickly becomes a narrative of rationalization and evasion, as Wally's mental state deteriorates. It could be that he's off his meds, or it could be that he's been hiding something else from Elizabeth, something far worse than his original transgression, something that only the loathsome Marvin would understand, and if Wally doesn't tell her, he's wasted a lot of gas.

Wally

Literature & Fiction

Peteroy, Don

Literary

Burrow Press

15 Views Vol. II: Corridor further explores the literary side of Orlando with 15 linked stories, told by 15 authors, and set in 15 distinct locales. This volume also includes 15 more authors, writing linked stories set in the Tampa Bay area. The result is a literary portrait of both cities. The Orlando thread delves into an Orlando plagued with violence and the large cast of characters who feel its effects, with stories weaving their way from the outskirts of Oviedo, down the Greenway Trail and into downtown's Orange Avenue as the bars let out. The Tampa thread sprawls across the entire bay area to form a quirky tale involving Albanian myths, local history, an assassin, corgis, and a mysterious black plane. The subtitle of this volume, "Corridor," comes from the name given to the stretch of interstate connecting the two cities--the I-4 Corridor--which is often highlighted in the national media as a political battleground, but is better known to the authors in this collection as a commuter's nightmare. The book also contains 30 black-and-white illustrations (originally paper cuts) by Orlando artist Lesley Silvia. Silvia also designed the book cover to be double-sided, so that when readers finish with one city, they can flip the book over to begin the next.

15 Views Volume II: Corridor

Nathan Holic,John Henry Fleming

15 Views of Miami is a literary portrait of the Magic City told in fifteen loosely linked stories by fifteen Miami authors. Sprawling from Hialeah to Homestead, from Wynwood to Stiltsville, these stories cover a range of cultures, languages and lives, reflecting the diversity and drama of a large and often misunderstood city. Contributors include from John Dufresne, Lynne Barrett, Jennine Capó Crucet, Patricia Engel, and many more award-winning authors

15 Views of Miami

Jaquira Díaz

United States

IPPY Gold Medal Winner (short story collections) 
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Long List 
A single mother rents a fundamentalist preacher's carriage house. A pop star contemplates suicide in the hotel where Janis Joplin died. A philandering ex-pat doctor gets hooked on morphine while reeling from his wife's death. And in the title story, a train engineer, after running over a young girl on his tracks, grapples with the pervasive question--what propels a life toward such a disastrous end? Rendered in a style both generous and intelligent, the men and women at the center of these subtle stories are driven by their unusual predicaments and preoccupations. Rife with dark humor, Vanessa Blakeslee's debut story collection illuminates the idiosyncratic and the mundane in energetic, bristling prose that marks the arrival of a powerful new voice.

Train Shots

Blakeslee, Vanessa

Winner of the International Book Award (Short Story Collections) Shortlisted for the CLMP Firecracker Fiction AwardA little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with ''discount Sherpas'' and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's Songs for the Deaf, the first story collection by the ''marvelously inventive'' and ''winningly satiric'' author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, put an intimate and modern spin on the American tall tale. Stories in the collection have appeared in McSweeney's, North American Review, Atticus Review, 100% Pure Florida Fiction, and elsewhere.

Songs for the Deaf: stories

John Henry Fleming

Songs for the Deaf: Stories

Radio Dark fuses Cormac McCarthy's visceral realism with Daniil Kharms' absurdist sensibility to create a uniquely surreal post-apocalyptic novel. As in Hinton's debut, Pinkies (a CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist), deadpan humor lurks just below the surface of this bleak tale.A mysterious condition sweeps the country, leaving its victims in a catatonic state. The power grid fails and the world goes dark. Somewhere in Florida, where the sprawling suburbs meet a dying citrus grove, a janitor at a small community radio station, an FCC field agent, and a DJ attempt to restore order and humanity. They build a radio tower to recruit survivors. As newcomers arrive and occupy the homes of the affected, a community grows and thrives. But when supplies dwindle and more people succumb to the condition, a doomsday preacher arrives to test the limits of the community; and the radio tower, once seen as a marvel, begins to look like an abomination.

Radio Dark

Hinton, Shane

Venus in Retrograde: poems

Lilley, Susan

Poetry

The Call: a virtual parable

Rushin, Pat

15 Views of Miami is a literary portrait of the Magic City told in fifteen loosely linked stories by fifteen award-winning authors. The stories sprawl from Hialeah to Homestead and reflect the diversity of a large and often misunderstood city. Contributors include John Dufresne, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Phillippe Diederich, and more.

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Wally

15 Views Volume II: Corridor

15 Views of Miami

Train Shots

Songs for the Deaf: stories

Songs for the Deaf: Stories

Radio Dark

Venus in Retrograde: poems

The Call: a virtual parable

15 Views of Miami