Cynthia Flood’s short story collection "You Are Here" seethes with political menace that’s seen through focused personal dramas. These stories defy categorization; they are wonderful, layered, powerful, and imbued with clear senses... Read More

In Zein El-Amine’s short story collection "Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?", the Lebanese civil war leads to disrupted lives and ghost sightings. Herein, war is more complicated than mere acts of violence. Enemy drones hover above... Read More

The haunting stories collected in A. J. Bermudez’s "Stories No One Hopes Are About Them" comment on qualities of the Anthropocene and center apathy’s hand in violence. Volleying between the beauty of final moments and the thrill of... Read More

In the dozen linked short stories of Rachel King’s gritty collection "Bratwurst Haven", lovable, flawed characters navigate aging, parenthood, and relationships. Set in Colorado in the recent past, the book depicts a gentrifying area... Read More

The weight of trauma and secrets brings a family to their breaking point in the connected short stories of Toni Ann Johnson’s "Light Skin Gone to Waste". The Arrington family has high aspirations. Phil, a psychologist, wants to have a... Read More

Refined and unpretentious, these short stories are directed by possibilities and filled with distinctive characters. Tony Canino’s collection "Acts of a Dubious Nature" comprises ten diverse and character-driven short stories. Ranging... Read More

Detectives, assassins, and occasional innocents caught in circumstances beyond their comprehension dominate the mystery tales collected in "Hotel California". Murder—justified and otherwise—is on the minds of the unscrupulous... Read More

Kasia van Schaik’s "We Have Never Lived on Earth" is a linked short story collection concerned with the young adulthood of a millennial woman. Charlotte, the daughter of single mother and an immigrant from South Africa, spends her... Read More