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Thumbsucker, the third poetry collection by Kat Giordano, is a celebration of the juvenile, attention-seeking, and emotionally-intense. These poems are funny, sentimental, and so sharp they might make you cringe, at the speaker or at yourself, but won't flinch if you do. "A eulogy, minus death, plus balloons.""Kat Giordano's Thumbsucker is one of those bruised, bloody-knuckled, cut-lipped books that has flung itself into life and all its suffering and is here to tell you, dripping in manna and umbra, how it survived. But behind this, cast like a shadow at dusk, is an argument that says despite its pain, its ugliness, life is beauty, is splendor, laughter and love. Read these poems for the iron in them, for Giordano's ability to rock you with a line like a surprise left hook. Return for the way these poems part the dark to show you something bright. "it felt wrong of me / to eulogize something I killed, / to miss it, even, / and still not be sorry." -Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish.

A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a butch painter, at an underground punk show, they enter a multi-year relationship that ranges from Portland, Oregon, to New York City, and finally Los Angeles, with V's family of origin ever interjecting with dysfunction and neediness. Her brother has retreated into a hodgepodge of Eastern religiosity and their mother's addictions are worsening. Meanwhile her father is busy building a new family, as sunny as V's childhood was grim. Leroy, V's gay best friend, has chosen rural peace, but V can't find the same satisfaction - anywhere. Ever in search of love, meaning, and temp work, V hurtles across the US, resisting the store-bought narratives of mainstream life to create a freedom all her own.With heady pacing, a recursive structure, and sharp prose, STILL ALIVE renders the much-maligned adult millennial experience with affection and profundity. In this story, as in life, there's no cure for living. This is what it's like when, sometime between getting out of bed and returning to it, you encounter a work of art. This is what it's like when someone else's truth reads like your own. This is what it's like to feel less alone.¿¿¿-Guillermo Stitch, author of Lake of UrineThis is a book for wanderers and searchers, a love story with all of the attendant cliches wadded into a ball and tossed overboard. LJ Pemberton has written a quarter-life raft for the dissatisfied and unmoored. Still Alive is punch-drunk and furious, listless and wondrous, brilliantly funny and sexy as hell. I devoured it. ¿-Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary and Terrace Story

Ride along on a journey through the wild and wondrous backwoods of the Canadian prairies, where the possibilities are as endless as the horizon, where the pavement turns to sand...A golf pro claims he was abducted by aliens before the big local tournament, though townspeople figure he finally fell off the wagon. A line cook comes face-to-face with something from his worst nightmare only to be mocked mercilessly by his peers. A beer league hockey player worries he didn't do enough to help a former teammate-and wonders if it was the man or his old pair of skates that was haunted. In these 20 stories, the mundane and the menacing meet over a pint at the local rink on the darkest night of the year, or around a midsummer bonfire beneath the stars on the shores of a deep forbidden lake.¿¿"Where the Pavement Turns to Sand is a collection of working class, everyday heartbreaks and bad decisions. In a refreshing rural Canadian setting, the characters in these slice of life tales stumble through divorce, debt, bad sex, and boring jobs, but also curling robots, aliens, jackalopes, wendigo, lots of legs wet with urine, and (maybe) sasquatches with an unexpected whimsy. What makes it work is Birnie's signature dark humor and conversational style that makes every story feel like it was your neighbor telling it to you over a beer around a campfire, or at the rink. Surprising, entertaining, grimy and weird."-Meagan Lucas, author of Songbirds and Stray Dogs and Here in the Dark, Editor in Chief of Reckon Review.

"Ominous, gripping . . . beautifully observed and cleverly structured . . . a thoughtful and provocative journey into the dark, bloody heart of American lunacy."--Dan Chaon, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of SleepwalkSeveral years after the bitter dissolution of the Becker family, Richard and Solomon--father and son--die on the same day. Shortly after returning home and still unaware of the violence ahead of them, Naomi and her mother Ruth travel across the country to collect the remains of both men and confront the legacies they left behind. Along the way, Naomi and her mother discover secrets about their family and each other, and soon encounter the dangerous and paranoid militia extremists with whom Solomon--along with an old childhood friend, Andrew Cook--had become entangled. As violent forces collide, Naomi, Ruth, and Andrew are forced to reckon with their pasts and their place in an increasingly dangerous world.

Percy Winks needed a job and a place to stay. Macy Thorpewaite gave him an adventure.The Muu-Antiques has it all. Intrigue. True love. Muumuus. It's a mystery and a romance and a coming-of-age novel-and it might be the sweetest book ever written.

Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control children's minds.Nicholas Hush, 1960s record producer, has a vision for the future of pop music. After a series of prophetic dreams, he wants to combine occult imagery with upcoming trends to create a new, groundbreaking look. His secretary, Valerie Chill, is tasked with finding consultants and funding while he crafts the perfect album. Quickly their project becomes entangled in other, larger machinations, and two teenage pop acts become responsible for international intrigue, brainwashing, and an occult massacre. Taking inspiration from the lives of Joe Meek, Phil Spector, and Timothy Leary, BACKMASK is a speculative look at how hidden messages got into pop music.

"Leigh Chadwick's prose poems are shockingly blunt and compulsively tender. They are dangerous confessions shot out of the cannon of her restless imagination and aimed straight at your heart. Don't blink." -Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World "Sophomore Slump is a kaleidoscopic, versatile, and transgressive work of art. These poems-no, these glimpses into the heart-are full of irreverence and the practicality life needs to sustain itself. Unassumingly brilliant and funny, Sophomore Slump is an indelible work from an unforgettable writer." -Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez "Hanging out with Leigh Chadwick's poetry collection Sophomore Slump is like bumping into a friend you haven't seen in a decade, and picking up exactly where you left off. Maybe you and this friend have both listened to 'Debaser' by the Pixies for six weeks straight. Perhaps your 'dreams are nothing but a wall of owls,' or you have stumbled upon 'a sundress lumped in dust and asphalt, alone in the middle of Grand River Avenue.' Just when you think Chadwick's poems have reached the peak in their crescendo, they keep climbing. Chadwick grabs the most dazzling grotesque tableaus of the subconscious, then recasts them in the spirit of a music video worthy of a premium spot on 120 Minutes." -Mary Biddinger, author of Department of Elegy "Leigh Chadwick's Sophomore Slump is a seriously hilarious romp, via prose poems. Chadwick uses the literary device of a lead singer in a band, complete with hits, demos and bonus tracks, to wrap her mind around the folly of celebrity at a time of Earth's violence and peril, i.e. How many forest fires would it take to melt all the baby Jesuses in the world? She is not afraid to meet our cultural moment head on with all the urgency it requires. Chadwick is constantly assessing, sometimes farcically so-in 'Yelp Reviews of Past Loves'-and sometimes chillingly so in 'A Comprehensive List of Places to Hide from a Bullet.' I couldn't help think of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence-though Chadwick kicks Bloom and Freud to the curb. Her anxiety is not struggling to top her literary idols but instead hopes to top herself (which, of course, she does!)." -Denise Duhamel, author of Second Story

When five-year-old Rory unearths his estranged father's handmade crystal radio-which happens to patch straight through to Hell-violence and terror reign in the form of hellhounds, shadow figures, and demonic possessions. Aided by a laconic fisherman and a charming warlock, Rory's mother, Rachelle, must track down her ex, the only person who can shut down the radio before the the worst denizens of Hell are unleashed on earth.

The Big West: a largely unexplored region of Calem, Central America, where time and gravity obey different laws, where sloped lakes and mineral snow decorate the landscape, and where a grand resort hotel existing simultaneously in three different eras hides from the modern world. As satellites rain from the sky during a solar storm, Geoff has come here to fulfill a mission he once believed in, but increasingly suspects is pointless. Is it just a malarial fever dream, or are his dead parents really here? Who is the shark-human hybrid always waiting ahead in the shadows? What business does a mercenary known only as 'the tall man' have with him? And is there any way for him to find his way back home?

Comedian Mitch Hedberg''s creative legacy is celebrated in this collection of seventeen short stories inspired by his most loved jokes. An acid trip, a quest to reclaim the sesame seed, an underground association of sandwich enthusiasts, the first ever suburban koala infestation, a Nyquil-tipsy priest, a view from inside the parade, a very, very hungry diner, a girlfriend who isn''t, and an apartment where every few feet is a bedroom, the seventeen stories in this anthology "yes, and" the jokes of late comedian Mitch Hedberg. At turns hilarious, poignant, silly, haunting, and rife with word play, What I Thought of Ain''t Funny, an anthology of short fiction based on the jokes of Mitch Hedberg pays tribute to the imaginative ingenuity and the writing genius of Mitch Hedberg, opening up the ridiculous of this world, and hanging out with the complicated human beings who live inside it. With stories by:Hal AckermanJanelle BassettDan BernJon DunbarAllison FradkinTJ FullerChisto HealyMaggie Nerz IribarneGracie Beaver-KairisMarco KayeVeronica KlashBethany MarcelJon Chaiim McConnellKatie RundeJenn Stroud RossmanAmy StuberJennifer Wortman

Teacher Voice is an anthology of ficiton, essays, and poetry from thirteen talented writers who are also teachers working across the spectrum of education, from preschool on up to college.