Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh was born, raised, and lives in a world completely different than the one we know. But he is no different than any of us. Yes, he must face death, insecurity, and disorder on a daily basis, but that doesn’t make him any less human or real than the rest of us. Hamidzadeh was born to be a soldier. Not a soldier of hate or war mind you, but a soldier of the heart. At the center of the so-called “Axis Of Evil” lie stories of life and love more compelling than any western rhetoric that we have strained to swallow. ‘Exile Me’ is a collection of 34 poems presented in both English and Farsi. These poems act as a living conscience of the times with verse about ISIS, occupying soldiers, and the emotions of wartime.

Exile Me

Literature & Fiction

Hamidzadeh, Seyed Morteza

Poetry

Maudlin House

Emoji Death Mask

Humor & Entertainment

Kiosk, Johnny

Humor

Good Grief

Gregorio, Nick

This Distance

Uncle Errol throws a funeral for himself. Bootsie spies on her own husband. Joe's band dresses in costumes and plays instruments from elementary school music class. Marco is tired of people shouting "Polo " over his shoulder. Mallory unlocks the doors between hotel suites in case the person beside her is also searching and alone. Denise eats crayons and goes missing. Gary tries to legally change his name to get back at his sworn enemy. Tell Me How You Really Feel is the only novella set in the municipality of Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Tell Me How You Really Feel

Hopple, Claire

A writer walks the entirety of New York City searching for a story, inspiration, anything to give him some direction. While navigating the busier blocks of Times Square, he stumbles upon a restaurant opening and an enigmatic man named Jiro protesting the grand opening. Believing it’s the only way to maintain Jiro’s interest, he claims to be a director, someone interested in developing a project that reveals to the world Jiro’s unseen culinary talent. Eventually, the truth comes out, and he comes face-to-face with what it means to be creative in a passionless world.

Dreams of Being

Seidlinger, Michael J.

Bad luck follows travelers through the desert, Mormon missionaries contemplate the bodily implications of the internal combustion engine, and minimum wage workers look for a sense of meaning in art, country and western music, and domestic terrorism. A lemon tree produces an alarming number of fruit, but nobody can manage to have a threesome. Perkins's first collection of short stories vibrates at the chaotic frequency of the American West, a place where the states are square, the drives are long, and heartbreak is at least as much of a shit show as it is anywhere else.

The Way Cities Feel to Us Now: and other stories

Perkins, Nathaniel Kennon

A man finds a seashell and it tells him to do things, some bad, some good ... An adjunct professor decides he doesn't want to teach at the community college anymore, he begins a journey into the underworld, his dog at his side ... A giant eagle egg is found lying on the lawn, it shakes and continues to grow larger, and larger ... Let's out go on a date with someone who has little tiny tigers in their blood ... Let's make love to a severed head ... A man is crushed with a car and asks a personal favor of the driver, he wants to run some errands around town before he dies--cash this check at the bank, pick up stamps at the post office, go with you on your job interview ... Double Bird. Vivd. Odd. Hurtful. Unloved. Wet with dew. Out of its mind with joy.

Double Bird

Smith, Bud

An office worker hopes a new drug will remedy her toxic personal life... A food blogger moonlights as a detective to give meaning to his gluttony? A rehabbed addict proselytizes with an increasingly bizarre methodology? Lovesick strangers try to heal through a dating app that promises a unique form of catharsis... A quarantined man starts having vivid dreams he's convinced aren't his own... At a party where everyone's "somebody" the crowd grows feverishly reverential of one guest's anonymity...In the prescient world of 'The Cult in My Garage', the characters are desperate for meaning and hungry for connection. Time and again, their attempts at betterment snowball into disaster or backfire spectacularly. And yet they still find ways to dust themselves off and salvage meaning.

The Cult In My Garage

Birmingham, Duncan

A portrait of the artist at the brink of self-actualization, Salad Days is a vulnerable and evocative study of identity. Its seven sections of thirteen poems each-"Waves of Confusion," "Moon Unit," "Art for the Afterlife," "Future Moods," "Double Fantasy," "Infinite Sadness," and "Sour Times"- describe its melodic and mood-based movements. This is a book that pops-that celebrates weirdness and leans into fantasy. If it were a movie, it would be a dark comedy; if it were a song, it would be New Wave. As a poetry collection, it transcends genre. It's meta, sardonic, messy, effortlessly joyful, and blithely relatable. Salad Days mines life's dry and youthful indiscretions and relates them in these sharp and cheeky poems.

Salad Days

Theobald, Laura

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