<p>Comics narratives entertwine to create a layered exploration of identity and the human body.</p>

Body of grace

Orts, Neil Ellis

NeoNuma Arts

Between 1995 and 1998, Neil Ellis Orts wrote a monthly article for the Echoes, the newsletter of First English Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas, where he was a member. Each month, he offered his church family a story, a meditation, or reflection--in 500 words or less. These pages includes all thirty-six of those pieces plus two not published in the Echoes. Author's royalties on this volume will be donated to Lutheran World relief. (www.lwr.org)

Thirty-six Echoes

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

<p>A boy slips into the quantum field to alter reality, a girl pays compliments and flowers appear, a woman replays moments in time to set things right, a man dies and returns to the living over and over . . . extraordinary abilities in ordinary humans. Through these thirteen mysterious, fanciful and, ultimately, human tales, authors Michael Buozis, Jan Carrington, Theodore Carter, Winston Derden, Becky Haigler, Mark Janson, David J. LeMaster, Neil Ellis Orts, and Vincent Craig Wright explore answers to the open ended question: what if you were able to . . .</p>

Able To...

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Chicago playwright Christopher E. Ellis presents five short plays, ranging in playing time from ten minutes to an hour. The plays include The Fatal Gift of Beauty, The Broken Museum, Dirt, Zero Wun Niner Tango Copy, and My Dear America.

The Fatal Gift of Beauty and Other Plays

Ellis, Christopher E.

Dramas & Plays

Award-winning poet Jill Alexander Essbaum takes her reader on a three-day journey through death and grief. Filled with her trademark sensuality and humor, here Essbaum also addresses issues of faith, fiercely questioning God while also trusting in the promise of resurrection.

Necropolis

Essbaum, Jill Alexander

Poetry

Inspired by Edward Hopper's painting of the four lonely figures in an all-night diner, Nighthawks is really two, complimentary one-act plays. The first takes place in 1943, the second in 1983, each sensitively exploring the loneliness and the prejudices of their eras.

Nighthawks

Guilford-Blake, Evan

From the cover: Berecka's commedia is not so much divine as it is deeply human-a retrospective poetic, accompanied by a wince and a grin. Scott Cairns Author of Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected Alan Berecka probes his blue collar roots with honesty and insight, depicting, with haunting detail and striking imagery, everything from family members who "smell of cabbage and onions" to the love "that pins us down." Ranging in tone from the elegiac to the hilarious, these impressive poems shimmer with craftsmanship, the work of a poet who takes his art seriously, who works the jagged stones of his poems until they sparkle on the page like faceted gems. Larry D. Thomas 2008 Texas Poet Laureate The hardest task of a serious writer is to be able to write funny, but Alan Berecka not only does this, he does it brilliantly. These are laugh-out-loud funny poems on child abuse and alcoholism, profanity and prayer, via some of the most unlikely subjects: the Pope's T-shirt, the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, Carl Yastrezmski, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Playboy magazine. These poems will both break your heart and alter your vision; I guarantee you will never look at the world in quite the same way again. Barbara Crooker Author, Line Dance and Radiance Berecka embraces the "flaw" without a hint of resignation-never hesitating to administer the sacrament of laughter where others might erect a wall of ridicule. This collection is a Eucharist, beginning to end. Bread and wine have their place; but the sacramental elements might just as well be baseball, popcorn, t-shirts, a puzzled Pope responding to a phrasebook reference to lost luggage-or the poet's old man flipping a bird. He has an uncanny ability to sense the presence of God in such acts, and that is a welcome invitation to take our shoes off and get comfortable on this holy ground we share. Steven Schroeder Virtual Artists Collective

The Comic Flaw

Berecka, Alan

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