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A masterful, thoughtful, debut chapbook of short fiction, that finds magic and wonder in the everyday.From "The Blue""Granny Chen invites Lanlan to her house by the cove. She has a room with a giant light in it. Its face is round and bright red. It used to be on top of the lighthouse, and it has seen many boats home. The light has always been enlightened. It has never had the privilege of being lost. It is exactly where it should be."Lyrical, surprising, funny, and emotionally resonant, Not a Place to Revisit is sure to satisfy fans of writers like Joy Williams or Lydia Davis, and fiction willing to explore the blurry, transcendental edges of our lives.Yunya Yang is a writer born and raised in Central China. She moved to the US when she was eighteen. She writes about experiences of being an immigrant, a person of color, and a woman. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Split Lip Magazine, The Baltimore Review, among others. www.yunyayang.com

A new home for western-y writing. First print edition: vol. 1. Featuring work by: Allyn Bernkopf, Andrea Caswell, August Edwards, C.C. Rayne, Dee Engan, Devon Bohm, Elise Swanson Ochoa, Emily Nelson, Evan Nicholls, Evan Williams, Harriet Prebble, J. Robert Lennon, Justin Taylor, Kate Finegan, Katie Manning, Lindsay Hunter, Margaret Grayson, Matthew Medendorp, Max Dougherty, Maya Lowy, Mike Nagel, Rebecca Ferrier, Sage Marshall, Sarah Lyn Rogers, Shelby Hinte, Taylor Greene, Tina S. Zhu

In the stories of Rules for Escaping, each of the characters have undergone or are in the midst of trauma/suffering, and are in one way or another looking for an escape. From subtle traumas such as bad father facing punishment; a hike in a barren wasteland followed by an existential breakdown in an emergency room; a man who thinks he sees himself on a billboard wanted for murder. To more deeper traumas such as a young man dealing with guilt and regret after his uncle's suicide; a theoretical physicist who believes she is on the cusp of a breakthrough and meets a depressed man who has taken up driving with his eyes closed for fun; a Colombian immigrant and charity care officer who, amidst reoccurring panic attacks, finds comfort in pressing her panic button in hopes to be saved; a young man who in therapy discovers his trauma may have been a fake memory implanted by a hypnotherapist; and for the title story, a man who awakes every morning in an Escape the Room of his own design, showing the ways in which people with mental illness have to go through difficult routine daily tasks to function.Throughout the collection are interwoven themes of identity, race, grief, depression, anxiety, suicide, and obsession, mixed in with humor, satire, surrealism, and Postmodern twists on format."An exceptional compilation of sharp fiction...a focus on trauma and its effects...a small but strong dose of absurdity and humor alongside insights into the world of grief...the author shows no fear when delving into darker emotions...an excellent showcase for his shrewd and deft talent." -Kirkus Reviews"In these beautiful and surprising stories, characters desperately seek human connection through the many barriers presented by technology, memory, relationships past and present, and possibly most difficult to get through, their own buried desires and history. Nick Farriella's Rules for Escaping is a series of impossible escape rooms where sometimes the characters discover their past selves have written the clues. These are powerful, cleverly constructed modern stories and this collection marks the arrival of a wise and assured writer." -- Dave Housley, author of The Other OnesNick Farriella is a writer from New Jersey. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Joyland, Hobart, New World Writing, Barrelhouse, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. He is also the founding editor of The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction. He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Rules for Escaping is his first book.

In this endearing hybrid work, we are brought into the mind of "Sebastian," who narrates Not I through a series of seemingly disparate thoughts, dreams, regrets, and memories. As the book progresses, a strange, funny, and moving portrait of a life comes into focus-a singular glimpse into the mind of an artist in the world.

In Collective Gravities, something magical is always just beneath the surface—the zombie apocalypse happens, but the world stays relatively the same; a woman begins to feel the earth moving beneath her feet. In this fantastical, genre-bending collection, Chloe N. Clark launches readers from Iowa, to outer space, and back again. Lyrical, funny, and full of transcendent beauty, Collective Gravities is a cause for celebration: an astronomically gifted writer, who, in twenty-six stories, shows us an entire world (and beyond) full of heartbreak, hope, redemption, and wonder.

A strongman grapples with his shrinking body; a couple recalls the metamorphic stages of their love; a deck salesman makes a long-winded sales pitch; a magician guards a deadly secret. These are the lives that populate the stories of Dustin M. Hoffman--a vibrant, eccentric dream of America, one that deconstructs the blue-collar experience, and expands the possibilities of short fiction itself. Satirical and heartfelt, poignant and loopily funny, NO GOOD FOR DIGGING cements the arrival of a singular literary talent.