
[sociallocker] A boy crawls through a tunnel in the Gaza Strip to bring back supplies to his family and neighbors despite the high risk of the tunnel being flooded, gassed, or bombed. On the eve of the Arab Spring in Libya, a girl and her best friend disguise themselves as boys to train for a …
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This debut short-story collection from Queen’s Ferry Press (October 2012) is made up of nine stories about people who find themselves at difficult turning points in their lives—times when they are faced with hard choices, broken promises, and the fear of self-destruction. These characters are diverse: a film projectionist, a second-generation comic book store owner, …
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Buffy is playing a game. However, the game is her life, and there are no instructions or cheat codes on how to win. After graduating high school, a voice called “the text parser” emerges in Buffy’s head, narrating her life as a classic text adventure game. Buffy figures this is just a manifestation of her …
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True, False, None of the Above poetically explores how books mark and mirror our lives and what it means to write, read, and teach literature in a world that—at turns—rejects, embraces, or shrugs indifferently at the spiritual.

fairy tales for grown ups
by Christopher DeWan
ISBN: 978-0-9915469-6-1
A wistful collection of domestic fabulism, coming this September from Atticus Books.
Christopher DeWan’s HOOPTY TIME MACHINES: fairy tales for grown ups is a collection of forty-five fantastical stories filled with peculiar journeys and wild awakenings, with fairytale heroines, introspective superheroes, and a whole menagerie of monsters—each one deeply human, and a little bit heartbreaking.
One of the “most anticipated small press books of 2016.”
Preorder now, or travel with us through time at Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads to learn about the book launch and upcoming events.
For review copies or to set up an event, please contact info@hooptytimemachines.com.
Christopher DeWan has published more than forty short stories and his screenwriting has been recognized by CineStory, Final Draft, the PAGE Awards, and Slamdance. His debut collection, HOOPTY TIME MACHINES, is coming this September from Atticus Books. Learn more at christopherdewan.com.

Teodora was a woman who user her charm, her diamonds and her intellect to escape the horrors of war and find a new life it America. There were three truisms about Teodora. She loved her two sons, she had loved her husband Saul and she adored America, the beautiful. She represented the only things that …

A stunning collaboration from Robert Vaughan and Kathy Fish, two masters of flash fiction, who’ve blended their work together in a vibrant explosion that is all of these things: evocative, heart wrenching, rare in the wild. The stories in RIFT explore the gamut of human connection and conflict, where emotions run deep beneath the surface. …
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