Kate Wisel’s short story collection Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, opens with an atmospheric piece of flash fiction that hovers like a dark and heavy raincloud signaling the downpour to come.
Read MoreA temp worker feeds reams of documents to a paper shredder. A scientist tracks moss in a forest.
Read MoreIt’s 1975. A teenage boy has unexpectedly died in the middle of a Denver winter after he falls through ice. In the wake of Sammy’s untimely death, a series of strange and painful lives bloom out of the frozen ground like wounded, four-limbed fauna.
Read MoreA new translation is always worth celebrating, but that is especially so with Bright by Duanwad Pimwana (translated by Mui Poopoksakul). According to the publisher, Bright is the first novel by a Thai woman to be translated into English.
Read MoreIn K Chess’ imaginative and timely debut novel, Famous Men Who Never Lived, 156,000 Universally Displaced Persons (UDPs) have traveled through a mysterious opening in the universe to a parallel New York. A lottery system decides which people transfer through “the Gate.”
Read MoreMany of the worlds inhabited by the women in A Bright and Pleading Dagger, the flash fiction collection by Nicole Rivas, are slightly off-kilter, highlighting how strange and unsettling reality can be.
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