The Night Walker's Song weaves a haunting tale about how the dead can endanger the living. Jo Nell James rents a neglected antebellum mansion in New Orleans knowing nothing of its tragic past. By the time she learns of its connection to the city's final yellow fever epidemic and two suicides, she's so embedded in its seductive charms she doesn't care that old-timers think it's haunted. Within months, mysterious deaths cast suspicion on Jo Nell and only crime reporter Archie Carrier can save her from a detective who doubts her innocence. Victimized by a sensational Halloween feature written by Carrier's newsroom nemesis, she becomes the pawn of a district attorney who will stop at nothing to win re-election. Those who doubt that repressed feelings can unleash dark forces will think again after experiencing Jo Nell's surprising solution to callous betrayal.

The Night Walker's Song

Literature & Fiction

Wilson, Dawn Ruth

Literary

Fleur-de-Lis Press

The Real, True Angel

Lippincott, Robin

Staying found: Poems

Christina, Martha

Laughing Sickness

Kathleen Driskell

It Was the Goodness of the Place

It Was the Goodness of the Place is a book that will break your heart and leave you glad that it is broken because you're all the more alive for the breaking. In luminous language, Lucinda Dixon Sullivan reaffirms the flawed worlds of all our childhoods and gives us hope as resonant as grief. Gabe Phillips, Clara's beloved father, is an odd-footed man who ruins his private world through his anger, lust, and arrogance. Yet, he elevates his community through his determination, hard work, and financial acumen in the tobacco business. Despite Gabe's flaws, the reader prays that Gabe's ardent efforts to reconstruct what has been shattered will succeed. His earthy, intelligent wife struggles both to achieve an independent self, after she leaves Gabe, and to reclaim the passion of her coupled life. Young Clara, a character as appealing as Scout of to Kill a Mockingbird, but more complex and vunerable, tries to create a wondrous reality for herself and those she loves--her divorced parents and Nonie, her aging friend and mentor. Against this quartet rages the crazed Ira Truitt, who believes himself to be the right arm of an unforgiving God. to hold them all, Sullivan hand-builds the small towns, tobacco-growing farms, blighted mining communities, and renewing rivers of Kentucky. Like the old tragedies, this book has its share of violence; through the pity and terror of the story, It Was the Goodness of the Place illumines the inherent worth of human potential.

Sullivan, Lucinda Dixon

High Horse - Contemporary Writing by the MFA Faculty of Spalding University - Poetry by: Greg Pape - Molly Peacock - Jeanie Thompson - Richard Cecil - Kathleen Driskell - Debra Kang Dean - Maureen Morehead --- Fiction by: Sena Jeter Nasland - Melissa Pritchard - Robin Lippincott - Louella Bryant - Roy Hoffman - Julie Brickman - Luke Wallin - Mary Clyde - Connie May Fowler - Brad Watson - Neela Vaswani - Kerby Gann - Mary Yukari Wataers - Crystal Wilkinson - Silas House --- Creative Nonfiction: by Dianne Aprile - Roy Hoffman - Luke Wallin - Charles Gaines - Molly Peacock - Robert Finch - Richard Goodman - Elaine Neil Orr --- Writing For Children by: Louella Bryant - Luke Wallin - Sean Campbell Bartoletti --- Playwriting and Screenwriting by Sam Zalutsky - Claudia Johnson

High Horse: Contemporary Writing by the MFA Faculty of Spalding University

Anna Wallace, college professor, food writer, and unabashed political leftist, has an ambitious newspaper editor for a husband and a baby on the way. The last thing she needs is a romantic infatuation with uber-conservative Jasper Clayquot, a sanctimonious yet charming speechwriter for right-wing Kentucky politician Emmett McCubben. But that's exactly what Anna gets in The Triangle Pose. Anna's comedic and ironic dilemma has much to say about the triangulated tensions among body, mind, and what the spirit craves. Anyone who has ever longed for a forbidden relationship--or tangled with an ideological adversary--will be won over by Anna’s voice. Anyone who has ever wrestled with the ways society defines us through work, family, friendship, food, politics, and religion will find a soul mate in Anna Wallace. Through the honest, sometimes biting social commentary of hyper-intelligent Anna, The Triangle Pose offers readers an unflinching assessment of contemporary right-wing politics, religion, and traditional family life.

The Triangle Pose

Mary Welp

Sonia Turbowskia was nearly ten years old when her pleasant childhood in the village of Brusilov, Ukraine, was shattered. In 1919, following the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I, civil war raged among Bolsheviks, Ukrainian Nationalists, and die-hard Tsarists. The latter two groups saw the Jews of the Ukraine as fair game for plunder and murder. With her widowed mother, Mirel, and her sister Raizel, Sonia hides in the attic of their home as the first attack on their Jewish neighborhood unfolds on the street below. Thus begins Sonia’s harrowing tale of love and loss, despair and, finally, hope. Mirel’s Daughter is a haunting novel that narrows the scope of war to one family, one child. Intimately told, it reveals the destructive power of hate and the enduring power of a mother’s love. Kay Gill’s depiction of hard-won survival retains its unforgettable immediacy long after the last page has been turned. Through imagination, memory, and research, she redeems compelling and appealing characters from a time as brutal as our own for contemporary readers to love and cherish.

Mirel's Daughter

Kay Gill

In The Moon with the Sun in Her Eye, Nana Lampton boldly explores the tension between the feminine moon and the masculine sun. Using the dual lenses of metaphor and image, she asks 'Why can't we see more clearly?' Responding to our local, global, and cosmic situations, Lampton places humanity among the plants, animals, rivers, mountains, continents, and cultures of our world. With a mythic embodiment who might have leapt from the brain of William Blake, Lampton's Potain Sieblung gives us a female figure both powerful and vulnerable, penetrant in her honest insights, and brave enough to sweep us stunned gawkers along in her wake.

The Moon with the Sun in Her Eye

Nana Lampton

Poetry

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The Night Walker's Song

The Real, True Angel

Staying found: Poems

Laughing Sickness

It Was the Goodness of the Place

It Was the Goodness of the Place

High Horse: Contemporary Writing by the MFA Faculty of Spalding University

The Triangle Pose

Mirel's Daughter

The Moon with the Sun in Her Eye