Lose your best friend because you finally Came Out. Spend days driving aimlessly because there’s nothing to do. Serve your rapist breakfast because you need your job. Fall asleep to gunshots and sirens because that’s the only sense of home you’ve ever known. Hold hands with ghosts. Your life is in pieces, but you can’t be broken. Wipe off the blood. Tired of being told who to be, what to wear, how to act and who to fuck. Break the rules and learn fast how to never get caught. All you need is nothing, but you’re happy with your car, guitar and camera. Throwing around polaroids of tits like they’re money, you swap stories about adventures and realize that we’re all running away from something. “Tiffany Scandal is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge in years. A deft, masterful mix of both bizarro and horror. I definitely can’t wait to read what she writes next!” —Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Ghoul “Powerful scenes, real characters, unforgettable images, and a climax that satisfies both the story and the reader simultaneously. Yes, yes, yes.” —Laura Lee Bahr, author of Haunt “The way Scandal writes would make Hemingway proud.” —Horrornews.net “Scandal has all the makings of a great storyteller.” —JS Breukelaar, author of American Monster

Jigsaw Youth

Literature & Fiction

Scandal, Tiffany

Literary

Ladybox Books

Beyond the surface glitter of tech wealth currently overwhelming cities like San Francisco are the interstice communities that have barely survived the onslaught. In the streets, in transient hotels and in rent-controlled buildings, the residents settle and search, trying to hold on in the city at the edge of the world. In these stories, Daphne Gottlieb chronicles inner and outer worlds, shedding light on the significance of a cat, the larger meaning of a parking ticket, the violent mutability of an indoor hurricane, and the contents of a bag as the owner stalks like a wounded tiger though the streets, dragging the memory of her objects through the collection itself. Artful, heartrending, clear-eyed and darkly magical, Pretty Much Dead is part fable, part witness, and part chorus with the voices that are only heard when they start to yell.

Pretty Much Dead

Gottlieb, Daphne

LGBTQ+ Books

From the forests, beaches, and Xicano community of Santa Cruz to the smokey punk bars, strip clubs, and Queer-girl culture of San Francisco, these are the stories of being young, drunk, punk and Xicana in Northern California in the 90's. Missy Fuego is an eighteen-year-old Xicana, the first in her family to leave home and accept a scholarship at a prestigious yet hippie university tucked away in the Redwood forests of the Santa Cruz mountains in 1996. But scholarship money proves to be tough, and she has to moonlight as a stripper to pay the bills in "the city," putting her at constant odds with two developing worlds. Through her daily journey to get things done she manages to get entangled with a series of diverse and important people, dodging close-calls, neo-nazi skinheads, Xicano authenticity battles, Riot Grrrl race politics, and hippies, all the while exploring her Queer identity, getting paid through her thong, and learning to take a chance on herself.

Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific

Bañales, Meliza

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