Kyle Filburn appears to have a picture-perfect life. He's entering his senior year, in a relationship with a great girl, on his high school's three-times-straight state championship soccer team, and an art professor from the local university has invited him to show and sell his work in his gallery.But a chance meeting with a midfielder from a rival high school creates cracks in this picture-perfect life. Kyle develops feelings for this boy, throwing him into confusion. What does he...

TIPS FOR HOW NOT TO END UP IN A HORROR STORYDON’TListen to the SpidersDrive in the rainBuy the dollDOSell the PuppetTake the Dr.’s AdviceLeave the Box ShutIn this thrilling horror anthology by No Bad Books Press, the characters of the following authors didn’t take this advice:Kevin David AndersonDiane ArrelleShaun AveryChris Bann...

Elvi and Andrus don't have mirrors in their house.Zoe climbs The Very Tall Tree.Thimbles fits in a tea cup.Sally cannot die.And Yeni fins a small thunderstorm in the breadbox.Fourteen pieces of fantastically human flash fiction gathered together to enchant and engage.

Regional interest in the Midwest and Louisiana, as many of the short stories take place in those two locations.Joe Baumann was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. Joe is also the author of , a short-story collection that won the Iron Horse Award for a First Book of Collected Prose in 2021.In the author’s own words: “I hope [readers] see how the bizarre and strange can be just as compelling and rich from a narrative & storytelling perspective as ‘literary’ re...

The inaugural winner of the Iron Horse Prize, a collection of sixteen short stories surrounding queer men of various ages trying to temper their expectations of the world with their lived experience.

Pumpkins and monsters and bats! Oh My! These aren't your typical grade school papier-mache projects. Get ready to let your creepy, creative juices flow, and sink your teeth into some chill inspiring Halloween projects. For more projects, check out Papier-Mache Monsters.

In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your city...

Two short stories:Black-Tie Dance: an undercover caper that sends an agent running for his life, dangling from a windowsill and visiting the morgue. Let's hope he makes it out of there alive.Bingo: Not your average deal with the devil.

A quirky collection of poems and drawings on every subject from muffins to murder (and even murderous muffins!)

Into The Ruins is an urban fantasy anthology featuring life-changing or world-changing events. They feature everything from comic horror, as in Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, horror, as in Mushrooms, historical fantasy, as in Plagues, science fiction, as in Whistles, and finally a fun animal story, as in Beergarden.In Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie, Detective Nate Mallon investigated vice, when he was alive. Being a police officer was his life. Even dying didn't dampen his enthusiasm fo...

A dark comedy short story about a man who adopts a stray cat that makes his life a living hell.

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead.Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.