Falling Womanby Hannah Retallick

 

motionally devastating and sharp as daggers, these thirty-five pieces of flash fiction focus on female experiences.

The book reveals grief, betrayal, fear, and quiet devastation, often carried in silence. Children encounter death and cruelty before they have words for either. Women endure loss, shame, and the gradual erosion of hope. They flee. They grieve. They navigate emotional abuse, broken marriages, and dashed futures.

A journey of catharsis for reader and writer alike, Falling Woman is Hannah Retallick’s second collection.`

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Fish head by Johnny Payne

 

his collection of stories ranges in subject and theme from mountain climbing to obsessive love, dystopian air travel, romantic betrayal, the travails of a Chinese eunuch, and Orpheus and Eurydice ascending from the underworld.

All of this is in Johnny Payne's head-spinning Fish Head.

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Saturday sample:If Crows Could talk by Debz Hobbs-Wyatt,coffee

 

Prologue

Wednesday April 10^th, 2019

 

 

It’s the day every path led back to.

April holds the coffee cup with both hands; fingertips pressed lightly to the paper folds. Her reflected face ghosts against the rush of passing trees and gray office buildings. Her neat red bob is caught in the flickedy-flick of the changing landscape. It was still dark when she left the apartment, still dark when she fumbled with the email saying where they were to meet. Only she always knew where they would meet. Still dark when the Amtrak left South Carolina.

And there it is again – the feeling.

She should have told him. What if he never understands?

 

The world clickedy-clacks its way past. People fumble with luggage and make their drunken-like stumbles to the bathroom, reapply lipstick and slap tired faces awake with cold water. Seven hours on a train – but April is sick of driving, sick of flying, sick of the lies.

She pictures Joe back in Lexington, folded into the lilac duvet, a Post-it stuck to the refrigerator. Not the note he wanted. She was planning on talking to him; she didn’t mean it to turn into a fight. There’s something I have to do. And there she was, fingers teasing open the blinds, looking out onto the street, listening for the cab, hoping he didn’t stir, because if he did how could she explain?

What would she say? That she isn’t who he thinks she is?

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Advice and Other Absurdities for My Daughterby Tom Formaro

 

m Formaro’s poetry takes random and intentional thoughts, glances and earshots, and torques them until some sense of motion emerges. What occurs in this collection is “advice” that is unstable, open, and resonates in multiple directions at once. Surprises from poem to poem, line to line, and word to word. Enjoy the dance and don’t get hung up on the steps.

Endorsements for Advice and Other Absurdities for My Daughter:

Tom Formaro has some advice for us, and I’m following it — every bit. A poem like “Clarification,” for example, tells us in a sheer list what the poet means: turns out, he means anything and everything. His beloved daughter (but, really, he’s addressing us) needs advice on traveling, on bank runs, on floods, on nuclear annihilation, on summer heat, on being cool (“follow edges”), on courtship, on bad advice, on gardening, on how to deal when “something good” finally comes along. That goodness finally is to be found in the very act of writing, poems where when “I confess the untrue/it becomes me.” The pun is intentional: it is becoming, or beautiful; and, in giving advice to a beloved, he is becoming someone who can write about love.

- Al Filreis, Kelly Writers House, founder of ModPo

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THE GOOD PEOPLE FROM THE WEST & Other Stories by Jesse Falzoi

 

Life strikes from angles we never see coming.

In this masterful collection, Jesse Falzoi dissects human relationships with razor-sharp precision. Her characters are ordinary people caught in the sudden undercurrents of change, driven by a universal yearning for connection, meaning, and a place to truly belong.

Tender, unpredictable, and deeply moving, these stories linger long after the final page is turned.

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