A lyrical, original fairy tale for all ages, with a cast of characters you won’t soon forget. In the Kingdom of the Wolves, the Wolf King hunts. Roland, Hunter of Men, is looking for a witch-born girl. As the story passed down from his own father goes, the witch is the only one who knows how to release him from the curse: like all weremen, the Wolf King is trapped in the form of a wolf except during the full moon. In the Weirding Wood, the witch queen’s son seeks a new companion. Born without any talent for witchcraft and magic, Prince Baylis is obsessed with all things that come from it, hoarding magical artifacts and creatures alike. He has heard rumor of a living poppet, a spell crafted from parts salvaged from the dead, sewn together with moonlight--and he will stop at nothing to possess her. In a seaside village, a young man is stalked by nightmares of the beast that killed his father. When the wolves finally come for Faolin, their bite transforms him into the very monster he loathes and fears the most, confirming a legacy Faolin wished to be a lie: he is the heir to the Wolf King's throne. Exiled to the Everwood Forest, Faolin encounters a girl made of patchwork. With snow-white hair and mismatched eyes, and moon-bright stitches all over her body, the patchwork girl has set out from her village in search of her true name. Together, she and Faolin brave the wilderness, witchcraft, and magic of the Everwood Forest, drawn along their journey by unseen hands. But the spell that created the patchwork girl is not quite finished. Memories of lives she never lived haunt the poppet’s secondhand flesh, whispering their stories. As the journey wears on, the memories become louder, more insistent, weakening the magic that holds her together. The patchwork girl knows her time is running out: she must find a way to silence the memories, before she literally falls to pieces. For fans of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, The Poppet and the Lune is an enchanting fantasy adventure of self-discovery, and a captivating original fairy tale for all ages. _________________________________ Fantasy Book Categories >Fantasy Adventure >Fantasy and Magic >Fairy Tales, Young Adult >Fairy Tales, Adult

The Poppet and the Lune

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Franklin, Madeline Claire

Fantasy

Unknown Press

A stunning collaboration from Robert Vaughan and Kathy Fish, two masters of flash fiction, who’ve blended their work together in a vibrant explosion that is all of these things: evocative, heart wrenching, rare in the wild. The stories in RIFT explore the gamut of human connection and conflict, where emotions run deep beneath the surface. Divided into four sections: Fault, Breach, Tremor, and Cataclysm, writers Fish and Vaughan thread together their tales of strange encounters, mishaps, accidents, and disrepair. The world of RIFT is riven, tumultuous, and haunting. In here, danger lurks and the fallible human heart lay exposed and vulnerable. Fish and Vaughan leave their readers spellbound, mystified, and eager for the next story.

Rift

VAUGHAN, Robert

Kathy, Fish

Literature & Fiction

Duke and Jill do drugs. They live on the corner of Avenue A and 10th street, in a mostly burnt-out building. Duke is originally from Wisconsin. Jill is from Wisconsin, too. They don't have much else in common.

Duke & Jill

Kolm, Ron

Contemporary

Erin K. Parker’s The Secret and the Sacred is a collection of short stories that will linger long after you’ve closed the book. What happens when your new friend confesses that he has a terminal illness? When the people in the next apartment make you feel like you’re never alone? When you discover you have hidden powers to right the wrongs? When you receive a message from the dead? When you find healing and real magic in the most intensive customer service job in the world? When you hit the bottom and there is no other choice but to figure out how to rebuild everything? Sometimes what keeps us going are our secrets. And sometimes it’s the sacred things that save us once we learn how to see them. The Secret and the Sacred is hilarious, disturbing, heartbreaking and unrelentingly alive. These stories confront the horror and the irony of what it is to be alive in our era with a sense of compassion and empathy that is all, too rare in most contemporary writing. –Seth Fischer, The Rumpus  Erin K. Parker’s collection, The Secret and the Sacred, immerses us in ‘daily abrasion mixed with fireworks’ of dating hell, wacked neighbors, lost and found love, ghosts penetrating new terrain through fear and discovery of power that rocks us into the strange species that we are. Read it. –Meg Tuite, author of Bound By Blue  A fierce and delicate first book, The Secret and the Sacred contains stories that pierce your heart, engage your mind, slay your being. Line by line, this is a haunting postcard to former lovers, any partner, every naysayer. A terrific read. –Robert Vaughan, author of Addicts & Basements

The Secret and the Sacred

Parker, Erin K.

Literary

A collection of prose poetry, exercises, lists and visual art that both lampoons and fully embraces self-help techniques. Michael Gillan Maxwell has found a balance between the absurd, the beautifully profound and the crushing.   The Part Time Shaman Handbook, is just that, a handbook for the person who doesn't take themselves too seriously, but who also likes to dance naked in the dark, make music, commune with crows, cats, loons, coyotes, packs of wolves and other power animals, spirit guides, passing trains, cars on the distant highway, stars in the heavens, waves crashing on the shore, thunder and lightning and all of the above.   The mix of Maxwell's original artwork with pieces of writing are moving, but also gut-busting at times. Perhaps even a few tears will be shed by the aspiring part- time shamans who fall under the spell of this wonderful book.   There's nothing like it.

The Part Time Shaman Handbook: An Introduction for Beginners

Arts & Photography

Maxwell, Michael Gillan

Study & Teaching

A stunning collaboration from Meg Tuite (prose), David Tomaloff (poetry), and Keith Higginbotham (collages), who’ve blended their work together in a powerful display that is all of these things: crushing, mind altering, odd in the ways that shine. The pieces in GRACE NOTES search the hearts and consciousness/subconsciousness for any trace of what is unexplored in the human web, to lay it out, without apology.

Grace Notes

Tuite, Meg

Tomaloff, David

A full length collection of poetry by Darryl Price. Wide in scope, beautiful in execution, here is the work of an artist who is as comfortable with the ephemeral as he is with the gritty. These poems weave in and out of subject, touching on nature, mankind, the great unknown and the 'here in the hands'. A marvelous work by one of the top poets working in contemporary American poetry today.

The Ferocious Silence

Price, Darryl

Poetry

In this collection of searing stories, everyone is damaged, wrestling with their mistakes while carving a path toward redemption. A mother, suffering from dementia, dresses in bee keeper costumes, dresses as Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra, while conveying the art of a well-lived life to her son and granddaughter. A different mother teaches her sons how to steal from their employer working undercover of the night. Lovers save each other from demise. Bored and angry teens shoot potatoes, then mice across a lake using a homemade launcher. A daughter competes for attention with her father’s new, conniving girlfriend. Nothing is as it seems in these stories which strike both hard and tender, taking straight aim at the heart.

I'm Not Supposed To Be Here and Neither Are You

Kuntz, Len

Devin Kelly's Blood on Blood is a poetic re-imagination of Bruce Springsteen's seminal album Nebraska. Using characters from the songs and the near-violent, desolate, and longing themes of American life that populate Springsteen's album, Blood on Blood tells a story of family, of loss and love, of violence and resurrection.

Blood On Blood

Kelly, Devin

Brilliantly slippery pieces of flash fiction and longer form prose from the author of Addicts &amp; Basements, and Rift (with Kathy Fish), among others. Robert Vaughan is unrivaled in his ability to suprise, stimulate and explore. A magician with a typewriter. He returns here with stories to hypnotize in the tunnel of love, beguile in the hall of wonders, spin you around on the tilt o’ whirl.

Funhouse

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