From the moment of a marriage’s heated inception to its period of luminous crowding and onward into distance and darkness, Bonnie Arning’s Escape Velocity asks if it’s possible to exist outside the only universe we’ve ever known. In modes both lyric and narrative, we are given a peephole into the height and decline of a marriage that begins beneath the moving lights of Las Vegas, Nevada, and traverses the devastating terrain of gambling, miscarriage, infidelity, and violence....

A startling late-night discovery in a cemetery teaches a young man that giving in to curiosity can come with deadly consequences.

A double collection—containing Versed and Dark Matter—from one of the most brilliant poets of her generation.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the National Book Award for PoetryRae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences toge...

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi. Others are content with more circumscribed lives - first loves, botched loves, hearts living in gallon jars, a dog singing the blues, and the computations of an old calico. Wherever you enter t...

This short story follows the life of a violin as it recounts its many ups and downs over the centuries, changing hands between those who love it and those who don't. This story was previously published by RED OCHRE LiT as A Sweeter Kind of Rhythm."There's no doubt that Peters is a master wordsmith." Gerry B's Book Reviews"Hauntingly Brilliant." Ashton the Book Blogger."An all around feel-good story that stole my heart!" Zoe from A Corner of my Bookshelf"It i...

Griff is a happy Miniature Schnauzer puppy who is thrilled to have just been adopted into a new human family. Outside in his yard, he soon meets other neighborhood animal residents and realizes there is a bucket of trouble brewing as someone is spreading gossip and hurting others. They hatch a plan for Griff to help expose the vicious gossip and return the beautiful neighborhood to peace.

1)      This is My Planet: Our planet is the most important thing in our lives, as we wouldn’t exist without it.  The stories in this book explain to children that we as human beings not only have to protect our planet, but also need to be kinder to our animal friends and all other living species.   ·         Human Joke: Written from a kitten's point of view; this story tells the readers the difficulties str...

Punctuated Equilibrium. Punk-eeq. Sometimes, in response to some dramatic change in the environment, a rapid burst of mutation creates a host of new species within a relatively short time. They call it "adaptive radiation."But what if evolution was a plague? And everyone you knew was rapidly becoming....Something else?

Whatever floats your boat, go ahead and float it. Do not have large untenable quantities of despair. Do not go to parades. When you feed orphaned wild animals, do not expect them to make it. Be forewarned. Be careful that your genitals do not show outside the strict confines of your underwear. Learn at least three racquet games during your lifetime.In this brand new short, Padgett Powell takes the reader on a completely new kind of journey. Just as The Interrogative Mo...

during the past thirty odd years with my love partner ive often pondered the meaning of love is it just electro chemical connections in the brain is loving a sibling more satisfying than loving a pet can loving a parent be the same as loving a spouse is love really more powerful than superman is love of a good wine comparable with the love of a good view will love really conquer all does love taste as nice as chocolate can love overcome hate just what the hell is love anyway im still as co...

Not all is as it seems on this road.

For those who hate numbers; and those who like them. Are numbers weird, annoying things that don't mean much? And where did they come from anyway? We don't learn the history of numbers in Math class. This gives them an unreal image that confuses a lot of people. But they came from somewhere for a reason and it helps to know where. This is a short article about the invention of 1, long, long ago.