Boys, Girls represents the poetic of five Northern California poets who examine tragedies and relationships in a way that forces an emotional response too great to be read within the pages of a novel.

Boys, Girls

Literature & Fiction

Tran, Michelle

Metamorph, Odette

Gunn, Kevin

Pomeroy, Nicole

Reyes, Cesar

Poetry

Unsolicited Press

The true story of life isn't a set line from birth to death. Life mixes together growths and breaks. It fractures the sun and it carries the moonlight into your bedroom at night. The Review Mirror sets itself apart from reflective poetry using brief lines and large impact. Let Harris take you through life, through every memory, and how one copes with the loss of memory as he approaches the fold of the universe. The Review Mirror seeks to understand life as it is reflected within shards of broken glass and mirrors that have changed one's memories.

The Review Mirror

Harris, David M.

Great Divide is a novel about memory, the power of the past to shape and subsume the present, and the pressing, terrible need to escape the drowning force of history. The reader inhabits the conflicted and mercurial interior of Jane, a young woman fleeing from years of abuse in her Oregon seacoast home to an uncertain freedom with her boyfriend in the landlocked new world of the Kansas plains. As Jane travels, her progress is threatened by nostalgia and attachment, responsibility and ambivalence, and, finally, by a massive flood which threatens to overwhelm both her past and her future. Great Divide is a novel precariously afloat atop a sea of time, at once alluring and threatening, beckoning us to dive in.

Great Divide

Kiernan, Emily

Contemporary

Scott Alexander Jones's "Carpe Demons" reckons with societal humdrum culture and the absurdity of modernity. Alongside the cultural awareness lies the beauty of peace -- zen. Life comes full circle.

Carpe Demons: A Poetry Collection

Jones, Scott Alexander

Characters come together in this collaborative short story collection. Dealing with life choices, quirky behavior, and an array of emotions, Six Months in the Midwest is a stand out collection from author Darci Schummer.

Six Months in the Midwest

Schummer, Darci

Short Stories & Anthologies

Meet Jimmy Hanlon. It’s summer, 1987. Jimmy’s a closeted bisexual in his late forties, nine months removed from a laryngectomy, and in this first part of a trilogy, he’s anxious to find a new identity in his Jersey Shore hometown. He hitches his hopes to a 33 year old lifeguard. The two cruise into summer with an assortment of boardwalk denizens and bar hounds. When they both fall for the same pretty nurse, the ride starts to get bumpy. In Jimmy’s story of redemption, dreams, familial and romantic love, misogamy and prejudice, accommodation and empathy, he discovers that the real victories occur in the small, courageous moments of our lives that overcome societal and personal prejudice.

Missing You in Belmar, NJ

Bennett, Mick

Attic Pieces is a debut collection of narrative poems covering a variety of themes set in rural towns as well as big cities, as seen through the eyes of the old and young alike. To a veteran astronaut unsure of home, to a soldier afraid to leave his, to a fishing town and farmer in their last days; each poem invites the reader into an intimate corner of everyday life.

Attic Pieces

Kriefall, Nicholas

Aaron Lipstein, “the Lip” to his best friend Charlie Figatelli, (“because you got an answer for everything”), is about to graduate high school at the top of his class. Aaron is looking forward to an uneventful summer before leaving home for college and getting away from his abusive father. When the bullet-riddled, delivery van belonging to Charlie’s father is pulled from a canal flowing into Jamaica Bay, and the police fail to recover Mr. Figatelli’s body, Charlie appeals to Aaron to help him search for it.

Charlie Fig and the Lip

Charnow, Steven

Genre Fiction

A horse. A woman. A dream. Nine years ago, things seemed simple to Jo Mason. She was going to be the first woman to raise the USMB International Championship trophy above her head. Double tragedy strikes the beginning of her quest. First, she finds her longtime companion dead in his stall. Second, his replacement almost kills her.Now, she wonders what she's meant to do with her life. Her fear of horses has left her estranged from her family as well as doubting and second-guessing herself. During a quiet walk in the woods, she's confronted by the rogue stallion's son and a choice. Take control or keep running.

Spirit of the Lone Horse (Stars of Heros)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Manjikian, Ani H

Fantasy

What happens when you pair a poet and a thriving singer-songwriter together? You get the marriage of intellect, artistry and a damn good book in your hands. If & When We Wake is the product of winters and springs. It has been buried under snowpack, thawed, cultivated, scorched by the sun, and buried yet again. The result is a book of poetry and art that shines light on the desperation, helplessness, and loss that everyone feels, and tries to find the beauty of acceptance and growth. It examines the necessity of finding meaning in life after experiencing death. This collection is an attempt to crack back through the ice and rip out a life that emits a light and a heat. It is the woods. It is the grass poking up between toes and tiny bits of soil underneath fingernails. It is alive, and it will sprout and grow.

If & When We Wake

Daulerio, Francis

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