Book Collection
The Naif
Valerie Hsiung
"The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivety—a language-fasted, resource-starved loop—and it lives as a test: of what awareness,...
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How I Killed the Universal Man
Thomas Kendall
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New New Animals
Nick Francis Potter
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Sleepingfish XX
Cal A Mari
20th anniversary issue featuring work by Steven Alvarez, Rosaire Appel, Ali Aktan Aşkın, Nat Baldwin, Niles Baldwin, Maeve Barry, Chiara...
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What Happened Was
Katharine Haake
In Katharine Haake's new eco-fable, What Happened Was, emissaries from the post-world return to us with accounts of a future...
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Math Class
Kelly Krumrie
"Somewhere in the gap between correct answers and questions that can't be formulated, girls are learning math. They aspire to...
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Summertime in the Emergency Room
David Nutt
Nine stories about befuddled loners, estranged friends, and detonated families, all hobbled by various acts of self-sabotage, yet still they...
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Tender Hoof
Nicole Rivas
From the author of the flash fiction chapbook, A Bright and Pleading Dagger, comes the debut story collection, Tender Hoof:...
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Sister Golden Calf
Colleen Burner
"In shiveringly beautiful prose, Colleen Burner maps a wild voyage into grief, love, and radical forms of kinship. Their novel...
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Maybe This Is What I Deserve
Tucker Leighty-Phillips
Winner of the 2022 Fiction Chapbook Contest, selected by Isle McElroy Tucker Leighty-Phillips builds a series of mythologies; of childhood,...
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