Childhood | Childhood
Jan.14.2012
Artie Royal has had a rough life - he's suffered more loss and rejection than anyone should have to bear. Still, he rises above the problems confronting him, and he does it with charity and grace and understanding. In fact, it eventually becomes as easy for him to push his concerns aside as it was...
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Nov.21.2011
Mark Lavorato's debut poetry collection, Wayworn Wooden Floors, is a striking piece of work, informed by an acute observer tuned to the everyday. These frank, thoughtful poems evoke both the tragedy and the comedy endemic to daily existence. Lavorato's poems are penned in accessible,...
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Jun.30.2011
Alone and lost in the blitzed city, Charlie Cornelius must navigate a shattered reality by creating her own maps.
Charlie lives with her Nan in Deptford. In the early days of the Blitz they are bombed out and Charlie becomes separated from the only people she knows and trusts. Although just nine,...
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Nov.29.2010
Note: The Shadow Wife was originally published as Cypress Point
Joelle D’Angelo’s best friend, Mara, is left with brain damage after she suffers an aneurysm giving birth to her son. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: her...
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Nov.02.2010
"Stacia Fleegal makes a stunning debut with Anatomy of a Shape-Shifter. Her poems are fearless in their approaches and language, muscular in their music, savvy in their psychological observations, sexy and thoughtful at the same time. In her energetic sonnets and her own dazzling nonce...
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May.05.2010
THE FLOODMAKERS is the astute rendering of one Southern family’s struggle to survive the stormy heat of a summer tempest and its own powerful emotional undertows. Mylène Dressler’s work has been hailed by the New York Times as “splendid” and by the Christian Science Monitor as “haunting,...
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Dec.02.2009
The revelatory and haunting journey of a struggling single mother from South Carolina who discovers she's expecting another child. Unafraid to confront issues with no simple answers, Seitz has constructed a story of ultimate redemption in SAVING CICADAS, told through the voice of an 8-year-old girl...
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Sep.08.2009
The Wild Things—based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze—is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a...
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Aug.05.2009
This is a chapter from my memoir, Into The World: a young girl's journey of faith and adventure. It is about my childhood adventures traveling the world with my family during the turbulent 1960's. My father was a Christian writer who wanted to gain inspiration for his books. He packed up our family...
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