Welcome to the world of Ray Trotter, where ordinary humans are pushed to do things in out-of-the-ordinary ways. Trotter has conjured a world of Southern ...

"George Singleton is a very funny man. H e could write about a tootsie roll and keep me reading," says Abigail Thomas, author of Safekeeping and ...

In Outside the Frame, Catherine Pritchard Childress gives full-throated voice to those who are historically silenced, while bearing witness to a complex ...

A collection of outstanding short stories by Iowa teacher, writer, and editor Keith Pilapil Lesmeister. This second edition has been republished by EastOver ...

Joseph Bathanti's THE ACT OF CONTRITION ' OTHER STORIES, a series of linked stories and one novella, continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his ...

In The Sins of Sweet Mortality, Marilyn Fox and Nancye McCrary combine poetry and painting, juxtaposing voice, image, and sensation, to create a multi-layered ...

Until All You See Is Sky is a report from the front lines of a first-generation American life: growing up as the outsider, parenting without a clue, ...

A 2023 anthology of short stories written by contemporary rural American writers of color. First in The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories series. Edited ...

"Imagine finding that message in a bottle you always dreamed about." So writes Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters , about poet and essayist Ralph Sneeden's ...

In twenty-five short stories, Andrea Rinard introduces an eclectic group of women attempting to claim their own space and to find meaning in the mundanity ...