Susan Tepper's hilarious 'The Merrill Diaries' follows a quirky young woman running from a couple of doozy marriages but mainly from herself. The language is whip smart, the characters live and breathe on the page. A beautiful book. Bonnie ZoBell, author of 'The Whack-Job Girls' This novel in stories is the end of innocence and the start of "the broken tracks, the roads where the river has flooded over." A delightful, extraordinary book giving us a look at one woman's unique destiny. Gloria Mindock, editor of

The Merrill Diaries

Tepper, Susan

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25 Miles From Here Pure Slush Vol. 21

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32 stories about bars and alcohol and pick-ups and brawls and loners and losers and drinkers and gadabouts and socialites and hustlers and bartenders and late nights and early mornings

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Contemporary

Hilarious, irreverent, twisted, bawdy, brilliant - these short shorts by Nancy Stohlman feel like a series of off-kilter encounters with the strangest characters you swear you've met before in a previous, more interesting lifetime. With sly humor and daring, Stohlman weaves tiny tales reminiscent of Etgar Keret, but with her own inimitable stamp. The Vixen Scream and other Bible Stories is an amazing collection. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it. - Kathy Fish, author of 'Together We Can Bury It' The Vixen Scream is a collection of compelling and strikingly original stories - an imagination functioning at full throttle. Nancy Stohlman is a word-alchemist, and here is her book of wonders! - Robert Scotellaro, author of 'Measuring the Distance'

The Vixen Scream and other Bible Stories

Stohlman, Nancy

The fourth three months 92 stories by the 31 authors from Pure Slush's '2014 A Year in Stories'. Authors include Guilie CastilloOriard, Townsend Walker, Derek Osborne, Gloria Garfunkel, John Wentworth Chapin, Lynn Beighley, Andrew Stancek, Rachel Ambrose, Gill Hoffs, Jessica McHugh, Shane Simmons, Michelle Elvy, Len Kuntz, Michael Webb, James Claffey, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Stephen V. Ramey, Gay Degani, SallyAnne Macomber, Mandy Nicol, Margaret Bingel, Darryl Price, Teresa Burns Gunther, Matt Potter, Gary Percesepe, Nathaniel Tower, Kimberlee Smith, Vanessa Weibler Paris, Joanne Jagoda and h. l. nelson

October November December 2014 - compendium

18 writers . . . 61 stories . . . celebrate food and life and food and love and food and friendship and food and jealousy and food and fun and food and families and food . . . so dig in! Featuring the talents of Paul Beckman, Claudia Bierschenk, Tom Fegan, Lyn Fowler, Desmond Fox, Gloria Garfunkel, Walter Giersbach, Kyle Hemmings, Gill Hoffs, Jonathan Levy, Cindy Matthews, Ar Neal, Mandy Nicol, Matt Potter, Andrew Stancek, Michael Webb, and Allan J. Wills.

Feast! Pure Slush Vol. 9

'dear Petrov' is a collection of small stories written from an unnamed woman's point of view. The reader is never sure that Petrov actually exists. And in the end it's not important. What matters is that Tepper treats the reader to beautiful language expressing the hopes, fears and despair each of us wants to convey to another. And, as is the case in dear Petrov, that other may not exist. Simon Perchik, author of 'Hands Collected'

dear Petrov

Susan Tepper

"Wild offers exceptional fiction and reportage, with a coast-dweller's sharp eye for maritime detail, and a humane regard for both the victims and the survivors of shipwrecks, both literal and metaphorical. From 'Prospects', a marvellous, moving reconstruction of the murderous maiden voyage of the Tayleur, to 'Luck is in the Leftovers', a gripping saga of living on the edge of the land, where life and death ebb and flow like the tides. Gill Hoffs' writing, fiction and non, swells with the power of life, sometimes life at the expense of other lives, but always animated and alive. This is visceral and vital prose, smooth as a sea-worn pebble yet sharp as sharks' teeth." - Ronnie Scott, author of Death by Design and editor of 'Tommy's War', 'Tommy's Peace' and 'The Real 'Dads' Army''

Wild: a collection

Hoffs, Gill

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