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What happens to an Egyptian girl in the diaspora when she cannot find herself "in [her] aunties"? The speakers in warda thread the collection with audacious declarations---from "I will never get married" to "I can become anything"---even as they contend with turmoil, joy, shame, and hope. Growth arrives in warda with thorns in tow. But the resulting contradictions are met bravely, without resistance. "Like everything veiled," Taleb asserts, "I want to be known." - Ghinwa Jawhari, author of BINT and founding editor of Koukash Review

In the wake of a train derailment, a comatose passenger traverses a mythological landscape that restores the numinous to his life. A woman who has served too long as a metaphorical battery for those around her realizes she must learn to nurture the fire within. A professor and student, both planning suicide, cross paths at precisely the right time and inadvertently save each other's lives. A painter's vivid dream explores the nature of artistic creation, revealing both its hazards and rewards. Three repressed and despairing souls spend the night at a lighthouse, where the yearnings of their unconscious minds finally make themselves heard. The lives of the characters in Lighthouse Dreams are tenuous and endangered, but hope arrives in the form of startling synchronicities, spontaneous visions, and the unexpected compassion of others.

Jason Masino's Sinner's Prayer invites us to question and redefine sin, our relationships to it, and how those relationships impact our self-definitions. Using the seven deadly sins as a framework, Sinner's Prayer takes us on a journey through heartbreak, consumerism, exploitation, existentialism, nihilism, and identity, with a pop soundtrack to nod our heads to all the way through. Rich with vivid poetry, crisp narrative prose, humor, and grief, Masino expertly compels us to imagine and re-imagine.

The Bones Stay is a short-story collection of five independently-imagined tales twined together by magic, consequences, and the influence of three root-working sisters. Between a cursed fortune, a cul-de-sac where jealousy bakes a fateful pie, and the horror of eternity, there is a common thread: fear, love, and the absence of love. Any wish can be a poison, and the family tree has eyes.Here, Green honors the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston by steeping each story with African-American lore and complex female characters. The event horizon of terror and hope builds a home in the pages of The Bones Stay... and that home looks like an old house in the woods, either inhabited by three sisters or haunted by them. (Isabel J. Wallace)

A prayer, a plea, a testimony. Working from a deep, abiding belief, and a skill for laying down couplets, Dannielle Carr offers a poetic divine comedy. She recounts her husband's, and her own, arduous and intimate journey through the promises and torments of his Stage Four cancer, in the hands of a medical system that, if unwittingly, offers as much torment as hope, testing the speaker's faith at every turn. - Johnny Payne