The Tiger Who Jumped Over The Moon

Literature & Fiction

Price, Darryl

Poetry

Truth Serum Press

International tax lawyer Luis Villalobos is lured to the tiny island of Curaçao by the promise of a fast track to the cusp of an already stellar career. But the paradise we expect is so rarely the paradise we find. 'The Miracle of Small Things' is a novel in stories, a portrait of the power of place in our definition of self. Author Guilie Castillo Oriard is a Mexican import herself who transferred to Curaçao "for six months"and, twelve years and a magical story of love later, is still there.

The Miracle of Small Things

Castillo Oriard, Guilie

What Came Before

"What Came Before is a remarkable achievement - a smart, fast-paced mystery that asks important questions about identity, family, and race. And, like the best of its genre, it's loaded with puzzles: What really happened on the day Abbie Palmer's mother killed herself? Who is the mysterious woman who shows up on Abbie's doorstep, and why would anyone want her dead? Gay Degani's prose is at all times lucid and compelling, and her exciting story will keep you glued to your chair." ~ Clifford Garstang, winner of the 2013 Library of Virginia Award for Fiction for 'What the Zhang Boys Know' "With engaging characters and a compelling mystery, Gay Degani's What Came Before draws you in and doesn't let go. If this had been a movie, I wouldn't have left the cinema for more popcorn. A brilliant and complex whodunit with a memorable, imperfect character at its helm." ~ Christopher Allen, author of 'Conversations with S. Teri O'Type (a Satire)'

Degani, Gay

Humor & Entertainment

78 flash fictions from a master of the form ... For the flash fiction connoisseur, 'Kiss Kiss' is a must read and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Beckman won an award for this collection. There are many surprises here and like other writers, I found myself thinking time and again, "I wish I'd written this." ~ Niles Reddick, 'MBR: Reviewer's Bookwatch'

Kiss Kiss

Beckman, Paul

"Something quite wonderful happens when you allow yourself to drift through life without a plan of direction," writes Jack Buck in his poignant debut story collection. The writing in 'Deer Michigan' takes this philosophy to heart, embracing the flux of fate in over fifty ethereal narratives. In one story we meet an exiled Mao on a hiking trail, in another the narrator mourns the graceful disappearance of birds. Buck's stories ripple with nostalgia, a reverence for the natural world and an America with room in which to wander. Though the stories in 'Deer Michigan' are short-in one case spun out in a single sentence-they bottle up an expanse of human experience, offering us a stunning universe of feeling. ~ Allegra Hyde, author of 'Of This New World'

Deer Michigan

Buck, Jack C.

True Truth Serum Vol. 1

Press, Truth Serum

"At first glance Claire Hopple's stories appear delightfully off kilter, even laugh-out-loud funny, but the flashes of wisdom start early in this collection and they don't stop. This is a world of constant disorientation where people aim for connection and gamble on intimacy, no matter how precarious. Hopple's small towns are in decline and her families are fragile. Everybody lives here: older relatives who unravel or disappear; a sibling tipping over into frightening criminality; three generations of women with the same name in the same house who manage to lose each other; a hitchhiker who proves the lie of American life; a couple of friends from childhood, forever connected in a web of communal memory. After watching Hopple's characters question the scripts they've been handed, we are left to marvel at the hard work of being lost." ~ Jan Stinchcomb, author of 'Find the Girl'

Too Much of the Wrong Thing

Hopple, Claire

When Talia Green answers a Craig's List ad to work for the faux-fat former police detective, Porter Nepal, she assumes she'll be a glorified errand girl

Legs and the Two-Ton Dick

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bailey, Melinda

Mystery

"Alan Walowitz's poetry can provoke out-loud laughter and pensive melancholy; better still, he can even do both in the same poem. He has a particular talent for reconstructing recollections, quietly showing us what is moving about them and why, as in this volume's splendid title poem." ~ Robert Wexelblatt, author of 'The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein' "What I love about Alan Walowitz's poems, is the very relatable way in which he captures so many of life's important moments with astute observation, wry humor, and empathy. He has a distinctive voice which infiltrates my synapses and resonates with my heart." ~ Betsy Mars, author of 'Alinea' "Alan Walowitz is neither withholding nor unnecessarily oblique. And then there's the welcome wit, as he juggles the sometimes Jewish-blues in deft narratives that never cease to surprise. In his refusal to claim wisdom, he is wise. And oh, so rare to turn a breath into a gasp." ~ Estha Weiner, author of 'at the last minute'

The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems

Walowitz, Alan

27 stories told by gay uncles ... and featuring the talents of RubinA, Alex Reece Abbott, Sara Abend-Sims, Henry Bladon, Steve Bogdaniec, Steve Carr, Helen Chambers, Carl Chapman, Chuka Susan Chesney, Carolyn Cordon, Ruth Z. Deming, EG Downs, Tom Fegan, Nod Ghosh, Jan Haag, Chris Hall, Alisdair Hodgson, Eddy Knight, Lance Manion, Colleen Moyne, Edward O'Dwyer, DeLeon Peacock, Matt Potter, Melisa Quigley, Michèle Saint-Yves, E. M. Stormo and Susan Whitmore

Stories My Gay Uncle Told Me

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