Marcus has been on the run for decades from the violence that scarred him as a child in South Africa. Now his past has caught up to him. It happens now, the sirens and the silence. It happens now, the sirens...
It’s not often that you get to see what happens when a modern day writer attempts to rewrite a literary masterpiece using a laundromat as his setting and talking clothes as his characters. This is probably...
Short stories from the borderlands of the American West. Body Count. Horse Stealers. Killing. The Bull of the Quarrel is Rising. Running. Mafia Western. Raid on a Cafe. The Contract.
"Single" contains two previously published short stories: "Miss Tennessee" and "The Cryerer," which first appeared in The Land-Grant College Review and One Story, respectively. Both appear in "Why They Cried,"...
Abrams Porter. Plumber. Smart, sexy, single. Every woman's best friend. And falling hard for Nina, the long-legged vision he met at a hot dog stand. A short, sharp story about love, pickup trucks, relish, Twizzlers,...
Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we...
"What could happen next besides gravity, besides the falling? The windshield smashed. Glass shattered, grains of glass hung suspended in confused air. Seconds elongated. Their guts compressed like they were...
A parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. A parent's only hope: a child's joy. What happens when all you have to give is not enough? A story about love, dreams, family, unexpected connections, and learning...
A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Toronto's Eye Weekly wrote of Cassingle, "No matter...
Adam Maxwell's first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short...
"Brian loves Patty in a quiet, sublime sort of a way, always has. He feels lucky, exempt from the marital cycles of jagged passion and boredom. But lately? He hears her shoes on the steps and his ass clenches....
I ended up back by the bar, but Kevin and his friends were gone—vanished into a crowd of painfully cool Karma drones. I was about to go track him down when someone spoke at my elbow. “It’s all fake, you...
Romantic poetry, while usually written to a specific individual, often outlives the relationship. When viewed over the course of a lifetime it seems that all these poems were written to a single idealized lover...
