4 Rms w Vu – Susana Case 4 Rms w Vu, Susana H. Case’s latest collection, consists of poems focused on human connections in their various manifestations, including: romantic relationships, both whole and broken, parent-child relationships, and our relationship to death and loss. The work uses the metaphorical floor plan of a New …
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The Birthday Problem by Caren Gussoff In the year 2060, the next plague has arrived. MaGo bots, the nanotechnology used for everything from fighting the common cold to radical life extension, have begun to malfunction, latching onto the brain’s acetylcholine receptors to cause a permanent state of delirium. The effects are devastating. The …
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Fear Itself by Duffy Prendergast Children will be the death of you. Especially if they spike your wine with antifreeze. That is what Mathew Derrick suspects his precious young Sarah did to her mother so that she could have daddy all to herself. But the police think that he killed his wife after …
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Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan Miscommunication and misunderstanding can be an addiction, an albatross dictating the invisible creeds we often cling to. Age, time, desire, lust, and a cacophony of suppressed urges are intimated at in, “The Lost and Erasable Parts of Us: “My identity tied up in a bottle. I craved my …
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Glorious Plague by Karen Heuler What if the apocalypse strikes, and it’s beautiful? When a virus leaps the species barrier in Glorious Plague, by Karen Heuler, people all over New York and New Jersey start singing and climbing to the rooftops, to the bridges, to lamp post and road sign, steeple and water tower, …
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Pacific by Tom Drury In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. …
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Revolutionary by Alex Myers In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation’s most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman. When Deborah Samson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn’t just fighting for America’s independence—she was fighting for her own. Revolutionary, …
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Lost in Space by Ben Tanzer Lost in Space is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always lively essay collection about fathers and sons, and their relationship to not only one another, but pop culture, death, and sex—because sex sells, even if you’re otherwise focused on parenting and the generation spanning cultural impact of …
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The Merrill Diaries by Susan Tepper It’s 1976, and the war in Viet Nam has ended. Twenty-one year old Merrill, living a mundane existence at the Jersey shore with her soldier husband, Teddy, is poised for change, too. She joins a rock band as their chick singer, and Teddy is soon replaced by sexy …
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