Literature & Fiction

In 1955, small-town police chief Art Moran is thrown into a world of danger and mystery when he is tasked with solving a gruesome murder in an isolated mountain cult. Despite feeling out of his depth, he becomes the only...

In "My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift", Hal revisits the complicated relationship he shared with his late Aunt Kathy, a woman who stood as the antithesis of positivity in his life. Despite her domineering and often cruel behavior,...

Viila and the Doomsday Affair is a 104k word imaginative fusion of biblical legend and adventure fantasy told in a laugh-out-loud style. It’s full of odd characters, Jewish lore, and two of the longest, most hopeless love stories in this...

As the war in Europe winds down, a unit of battle-fatigued GIs are tasked in liberating the survivors of the infamous Verurteilt concentration camp, in theory a relatively simple rescue mission. Upon arrival, Sergeant Rance Hawkins and his four young...

Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual...

Ivy I've harbored a secret crush on Grant ever since that freckle-faced kid first set foot in our yard when I was just six years old. I knew he was special. Grant has always had this uncanny ability to understand...

God tested, Atheist approved. This is how Christians secretly view the Sodom and Gomorrah story. It's as disgusting as it is funny.

It's July of 1970. The decaying beach town of Asbury Park, New Jersey erupts with racial unrest that propels three unlikely teenage friends into turmoil. Adam, Mollie, and Howard struggle with family conflicts and their racial, cultural and class identities...

Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption that stretches all the way into Nuevo Laredo's infamous "Boys Town" and incriminates Seclusion's rich and powerful—including members of the church and law enforcement.

Are you truly open-minded? In “Others Know Only What I Care to Tell Them”, a reclusive child writer prodigy faces a midlife crisis when a young man in the produce aisle in Fairway recognizes who he is and begs him...