Light Boxes is about a mysterious town that endures a long, deadly winter. Told in short bursts, the story concerns the war the townspeople bring against February, an oddly real and powerful character.

Light Boxes

Shane Jones

Publishing Genius Press

Fiction. Middle East Studies. MLKNG SCKLS is a short collection of Salim Abid's deleted Word documents written during his escape up the Euphrates from Fallujah to Ramadi. These texts could have been included in Falcons on the Floor, which is the novel Salim wrote about fleeing from his war ravaged city, but for sensitive reasons he chose to remove them. That metanarrative provides the conceit of this chapbook, lushly composed by Justin Sirois and edited by Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. MLKNG SCKLS provides a bristling and necessary look into the realities of living in Iraq, complete with dying laptop batteries, knock-off sneakers, and carnage-lined roadways.

MLKNG SCKLS

Literature & Fiction

Sirois, Justin

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fiction. Joseph Young's microfictions are delicate in their profundity. Each of the 76 stories are so tightly crafted that the richness is clear through the spare word counts.

Easter Rabbit

Young, Joseph

Poetry. "Mairead Byrne's poems are moving microcosms in which a keen power of observation and playful imagination fuse with the minutiae of daily life to create small missives of quirky and insightful documentation. Her source material includes everything from the weather to credit card bills to news reports to human body parts to animal pelts and all of these seemingly disparate details amass into a kind of living, breathing envelope that holds the marrow of existence itself in all its harsh reality, weird surreality, absurdity, fragility, and occasional beauty. Often funny and sometimes sobering, Byrne's work exposes the difficult-to-reconcile distractions, detritus, and rubble that surround us from all sides, but also culls glowing artifacts from such debris"--Juliet Cook.

The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven

Byrne, Mairéad

Poetry

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Andy Devine's WORDS includes two alphabetical lists (words that should and should not be used), a grammar on fiction writing, nine alphabetical stories, and a 90K-word novel (condensed to 20 pages). Michael Kimball attempts to explain all of it in the Afterword.

Words

Devine, Andy

Mike Young has pulled off the feat of releasing a collection of poetry and short stories in the same year. We Are All Good if They Try Hard Enough, the sincere and funny debut book, balances media-saturated satire with Martin Buber-strength notions of care and consideration. The poems ask big questions like WHY? and when the book is through, it suggests an answer: let's be friends.

We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

Young, Mike

"Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer. I have a couple of rules about things I allow myself to like. Rachel breaks all of them and her stories leave me hunting for my rule book. Where is my rule book? Damn her. Bless her. Say what you will. PEE ON WATER is a new way to breathe"--Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Pee On Water

Glaser, Rachel B.

Poetry. Fiction. SASQUATCH STORIES is a collection of poetry joke stories, each one better than the one before and after it. Cover art by Tao Lin. Illustrated by David Berman. "Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer—a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us"—Gary Lutz.

Sasquatch Stories

Topp, Mike

Fiction. "Like wrangling elastic flamingoes and dyspeptic hedgehogs around wondrous croquet pitches, like rolling bocce with hair-triggered hand-grenades in a downpour of jazz-scatting jarts, Sean Lovelace's wondrous FOG GORGEOUS STAG staggers a mere mortal's imagination with the sheer dervished dervish tattooed on the triumphant tympanic page, the centripetal paragraphs parachuting marginal corridors of ruin, and the Rorschaching sentences slicing through the winded wind-sheer of everything, everything going everywhere fast. This is prose that out-Jesuses poetry's poetry. Reading it is to engage in the interval training of the syntaxes. The pant panting! The hypoxic breathlessness! The all of it that is the all of it!"—Michael Martone.

Fog Gorgeous Stag

Lovelace, Sean

Literary

Poetry. The 50 poems in this collection are short, witty, and heartfelt, and they explore the interplay between the sci-fi and the religious. Which is about what you'd expect from the poet Rupert Wondolowski dubbed "the Emily Dickinson of Mars."

The Disinformation Phase

Toll, Chris

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