"It's pleasing to see such a diverse array characters be so presented in such a normal way. Each individual is not presented as a token, but rather just another human being who has some real life issues that are often rendered invisible." -- Wagatwe Wanjuki, feminist writer and activist
"The stories in this collection, written before and during the 2016 election, function as a kind of lodestar. They are not explicitly political, but politics hover unmistakeably in and through all of them. They are not realist, but realism pervades even their most magical elements. This is their abiding strength." -- Assam Ahmad, editor

Dark Corners

Literature & Fiction

Hayslett, Reuben Tihi

Short Stories & Anthologies

RIZE

Review\n"A subtle but powerful tale of political intrigue and honor." - Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Indie\n17th century northern Nigeria. A royal messenger has died under suspicious circumstances. Tasked with investigating the death, a Durbar warrior and his young apprentice must endure trials of loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice to solve the mystery and prevent the bitter rivalry between two kingdoms from descending into a bloody war.

The Durbar's Apprentice

Blackstaff, Remington

United States

Delirium's Muse--the mind's frightening yet fascinating ability to rationalise the irrational, to grant an escape from the ravages of reality into the more comforting cradle of delusion, where addiction is anthropomorphized, attacked, and defeated; where wellness is a product of will; where safety and sanity are but seeds to be sown in the fertile ground of fantasy. Delirium's Muse is a collection of stories of flight, of fugitives of reason who set out on a fugue from the torments of truth into the more hospitable terrain of madness.

Delirium's Muse

Wertenberg, Michaël

Genre Fiction

And the Train Kept Moving is about Bryan Meigs, a gay alcoholic with OCD who struggles with the aftermath of getting date-raped and potentially infected with HIV. As Bryan works up the courage to confront his rapist, he must confront his present fears of infection, ghosts from his past, and brutal truths about himself.

And The Train Kept Moving

Kiggins, Michael

Literary

A mother struggles with what it means to be Chicana as she searches for her son at a powwow. A delivery driver has a fateful encounter with a voracious customer at the end of the world. A grieving father learns the true identity of the hummingbird that hovers outside his kitchen window. A Mexican cowboy--who might or might not be the Messiah--orders a pepperoni pizza on a Friday night. And a troubled young man develops an unexpected bond with his neighbor's racist yard ornament. In his debut collection, Tomás Hulick Baiza explores the poetic and mythic spaces between light and dark, where Aztec gods and more contemporary obsessions fight for dominance. With characters who jump off the page, A Purpose to Our Savagery takes readers on a journey through tragi-comic, hallucinatory, and even nightmarish landscapes where he exalts the resilience of outsiders in a world inclined to leave them behind. In the end, Baiza's stories highlight the extraordinary and mundane challenges that we overcome to make it to the next day.

A Purpose to Our Savagery

Baiza, Tomas

When a mysterious preacher arrives at their ranch in the Rocky Mountains, Genesis watches as her pious mother becomes enamored by him and then must fight to keep her sister, Isaiah, and the ranch out of his grasp.\nSteadfast Genesis and defiant Isaiah are content on their famed grandfather's ranch nestled against the Rocky Mountains. When a mysterious new preacher arrives, called Leader by his congregation, the foundation of their legacy is shaken. Their pious mother, wooed by Leader's commanding presence becomes a devout member of his fold, pulling the sisters into Leader's reach. While the Depression puts pressure on the ranch, Leader's prosperity only grows. But his "church" is more than it appears. Once Genesis discovers his true intentions, she must fight to keep her ranch, and her sister, out of Leader's grasp.

The Valley of Sage and Juniper

Galloway, Shay

Rize Novella Anthology, Volume 1

Mori, Glenn

Kamali, Nazia

Jayakumar, Rani

Rao, Naveen D

Before You Met Me is a confessional poetry and prose book that was created in tandem with Agatha's therapist who helped guide her through the healing process. Agatha uses the art of writing as a way to unspool the murky web of memories inside our unconscious minds in an effort to bring them to conscious awareness. Before You Met Me provides insight into the underlying mental health issues that readers encounter but never reveal. The book includes snapshots of decades-old diary entries and authentic written correspondence between the protagonist and her loved ones. These stories were crafted around her own memories and explore her deepest thoughts and feelings, attempting to express the unexpressed.

Before You Met Me

Sicil, Agatha

Poetry

The AIDS Quilt will be on display in June 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the first cases, but it will be its last appearance as ordered by the heavy hand of the President of the United States. Nine nurses who worked with AIDS patients during the early years of the pandemic travel to Washington, D.C. to see the Quilt. While there, they are called upon by the National Health Center to care for patients with a new, unknown infectious disease and racist views, and they are asked to find the clues to its cause so that a VIP patient can be cured. But the nurses discover that even more challenging than this difficult assignment are the memories they begin to share from their painful AIDS nursing past. The Charon Club, a fictional chronicle of AIDS nurses’ memories and experiences, set in the midst of an emerging infectious disease in the eastern United States in 2021, was written by a nurse who worked on an AIDS unit in New York City during the darkest years of the pandemic. It is the first AIDS novel solely devoted to the work of nurses.

The Charon Club

Biographies & Memoirs

Bright, Gina

Professionals & Academics

A half-bot, an empath, a punk and a god walk into a twenty-third century bar. The four team up in attempts to uncover who murdered their esteemed science professor dark research. The four headstrong misfits must overcome their own inner demons and move quickly to nab the culprit, as whoever has taken Ferguson's research is unleashing the doctor's synthetic plagues onto New York City. Humans and hybrids alike are going feral and eagerly infecting others with their newfound agony. If they don't work quickly to solve this threat, New York City will be devoured by this plague which, overtime, appears to be developing sentience.

Death Tango

Lachi, M.

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