Like a Road ISBN 978-0-9864924-0-2 $25.00 Order here “My name is Jerry Carson.” And so it begins. All Carson men leave home early, and between departure and return, between flight and reconciliation lies the journey. Trial by water and by fire, trials of betrayal, imprisonment, loneliness and loss. As in all fairy tales there are [...]
Colin Fullerton
S.K.Johannesen
The Yellow Room ISBN 978-0-9784321-9-5 $20.00 Order here The final days of Jørgen Mikkelsen. A man of no family or property, a disappointed artist and lover, a reluctant Resistance fighter, a man with intolerable burdens of memory and regret. Alone with his thoughts, a curiously lucid madman imprisoned in an attic room, Jørgen conjures out [...]
Karen Mulhallen
Acquainted With Absence. Selected Poems edited by Douglas Glover ISBN 978-0-9784321-7-1 $24.00 Order here “—a magnificent poet, prolific, protean and deeply, intensely, personal. She is a metaphysical poet, concerned with ends and existence, yet she grounds everything in the specific and the concrete. “Reading and rereading her, one begins to notice, beyond the narratives of [...]
Eric Schachter
Dry Bones ISBN 978-0-9784321-6-4 $20 Order here A hybrid narrative, different voices, contrasting worlds. One strand—banal, cruel, funny, sentimental by turns—a coming-of-age tale, a middle-class schoolboy awakens to the facts of class and sex in post-war England. The other strand a sordid tale of manipulation, betrayal and murder in Toronto, Kingston and Montreal. These stories [...]
Jason Schneider
Philip Snowcroft’s Finality ISBN 978-0-9784321-8-8 $20 Order here A Manhattan fable of talent and mediocrity, ambition and genius, art and commerce, crime and punishment. Owen Higdon, hungry artist’s-agent, likeable chancer and compulsive gambler, has staked everything on selling Philip Snowcroft’s new painting. Finality is his friend’s culminating achievement as an artist, a work of epic [...]
Michelle Alfano
Made Up of Arias ISBN 978-0-9784321-5-7 $20.00 Order here Lilla, Joey and Clara Pentangeli, their father Salvatore and their mercurial mother Seraphina live on Paradise Street behind a giant billboard, in a charmed world filled with operatic heroines. Seraphina idolizes Maria Callas. Between bouts of housework, she re-enacts Violetta’s death scene from La Traviata, dresses [...]
Sylvia Markle-Craine
Swimming to Fatima ISBN 978-0-9784321-3-3 $20 Order here A cycle of spare, sweet-sad, magical tales. A small girl dreams a house floating away. Lolly loves pink. Walter and Hank conduct a juke-box war. Tessie dances with a spectral Sidney Greenstreet. Sadie may or may not have caused Lila to be air-borne. Characters migrate between stories. [...]
Virgil Burnett
Scarbo Edge: A Romaunt ISBN 978-0-9784321-2-6 $28 Order here This Byronic tale is a narrative tour de force reminiscent of the haunting, romantic visions of Julien Gracq. At once mystery, thriller, erotic fantasy, ghost story, epic, a tale of obsession and weird encounter, Scarbo Edge is set on a Lake Huron coast unlike anything encountered [...]
Michael Linhares
Autumn Hollow ISBN 978-0-9784321-4-0 $22.50 Order here A first collection in the tradition of the strange, the weird, the uncanny tale. Set in a ghost- and ghoul-haunted woodland, located somewhere between horror and fantasy, in which past and present intertwine, these stories throb with recurring motifs or symbols—a horse, a dog, a weathervane, a wheelbarrow, [...]
S.K.Johannesen
Luggas Wood ISBN 978-0-9784321-1-9 $18 Order here And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? In Luggas Wood, a dark and brooding headland on the border of England and Wales, an extension of this ancient myth may be playing itself out. Max Pilbeam, successful sculptor and architect, is hoping to re-invigorate [...]