New and Forthcoming
APRIL 18, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 56 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-18-4
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?
When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond. Confronted by a giant, talking frog, she faces an impossible choice: surrender to nature’s limits or embrace a transformation that blurs the line between human and animal.
Baglio masterfully blends fairy-tale magic with raw emotional realism, crafting a tale that is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Frog Heart lingers long after the final lines, asking readers to consider the lengths we go to preserve life—and the strange bargains love demands.
Joy Deva Baglio is a speculative-literary fiction writer whose short stories have appeared widely in journals such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction,Conjunctions, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA (and virtually). She is at work on a collection of short fiction and three speculative-literary novels. She lives in Northampton MA, where she can also be found playing the bagpipes, running, and scheming up adventures. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com.
June 23, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 56 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-29-0
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A sly, melancholy reimagining of the astronaut history forgot.
The first three men on the moon return to parades, book deals, and instant mythmaking. But the fourth? He steps onto the lunar surface only minutes later and finds himself erased before he even gets home. What follows is a wry, unsettling portrait of a man watching his own legacy evaporate in real time.
Bryan Hurt turns the machinery of fame inside out, exposing how quickly collective memory calcifies—and how arbitrary the line is between the celebrated and the invisible. Part satire, part elegy, The Fourth Man lingers with its quiet ache, reminding us that history is less a record than a spotlight, and someone is always standing just outside its beam.
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Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France (Red Hen, 2018), winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (OR Books/Catapult, 2016) and former Editor in Chief of The Arkansas International, and former Midwest editor at Joyland. His work has appeared in places like McSweeney’s, Guernica, and Kenyon Review Online.
JULY 7, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-33-7
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A young girl and her mother pinball across the country in a green Plymouth station wagon, never staying anywhere long enough to be found or to put down roots.
What begins as a road story becomes a portrait of survival, mythmaking, and the fierce love between a mother and child living just outside the frame of an ordinary life. With each new state line crossed, the daughter grows more aware of the past they’re outrunning—and the future she’s quietly assembling from maps, mottos, and the stories she tells herself to stay whole.
A tender, sharp, and deeply American story about motion, memory, and the invisible forces that shape a family.
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Dana Fitz Gale won the Brighthorse Prize in Short Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Spells for Victory and Courage (Brighthorse Books, 2016), which was also a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Ohio State Book Prize. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, Quarterly West, New Letters, and Crab Orchard Review, among others.
May 19, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-17-7
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
Our people had moved to Bounty because the land was there and it was empty, and now all we had was the emptiness and one another.
When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter. What begins as one family’s attempt to escape their sorrow spreads across town, drawing neighbors into a collective hibernation that promises rest, renewal, and release—at a cost no one can fully name.
Horrocks writes with the emotional acuity of a realist and the imaginative charge of a fabulist, turning a quiet premise into a haunting meditation on rest, avoidance, and the strange rituals communities build around loss.
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the Ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, One Story, and other journals and anthologies. She was previously a senior fiction editor at The Kenyon Review.
“When the fourth man emerged from the spaceship he was greeted by no one. ”
From the Blog
“Death in the Woods is a signal junction in [Sherwood] Anderson’s career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language.”
The Modernists
Influenced by societal changes in the early 20th-century, the Modernist movement in literature was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of expression and rewrite the rules of storytelling. It was characterized by experimentation and used techniques such as stream-of-consciousness, multiple viewpoints, and non-linear plots.
NOVEMBER 25, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-25-2
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
“Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of—what? That life's like that, it seems.”
During a train journey, the narrator imagines the life story of a fellow passenger. As fiction and reality blur, the story reveals how imagination shapes our understanding of others and ourselves.
Written in Virginia Woolf's signature stream-of-consciousness style, this short story offers readers a glimpse into the intricate workings of the human mind through a seemingly ordinary train trip.
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist, critic, and publisher who became a key figure of literary modernism. She was the author of many novels, among them Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism, including the influential feminist essay A Room of One’s Own.
Afterword by Michelle Bailat-Jones.
DECEMBER 16, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-26-9
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
The door of Henry’s Lunchroom opened and two men came in …
Ernest Hemingway explores the casual nature of evil in this bleak short story set in a small town outside of Chicago.
It’s a winter evening, around dusk, and Nick Adams is sitting at the counter of a diner in Summit, Illinois when two strangers enter the diner. They’re looking for a boxer called the Swede and they intend to kill him.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for his concise, understated writing style. His novels, including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, are considered American classics. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
January 20, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-27-6
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When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house …
Emily Grierson is an eccentric and reclusive woman from a once-respected Southern family. Isolated in her mansion after her father’s death. She gives art lessons to the young children of the town to support herself, and—for a time—becomes friendly with a laborer who comes to town. For years, townspeople only see a manservant coming in and out of the house and they’re all too curious about the happenings inside and why there’s such a powerful odor emanating from the property.
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William Faulkner (1897–1962) was a novelist and short-story writer, best known for his works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, including The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. Faulkner received two Pulitzer Prizes and the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
February 10, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-28-3
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“Death in the Woods” is a signal junction in Anderson's career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language."—Jim Harrison
A deceptively simple story of the life and death of a downtrodden farm woman who lives with her abusive husband and their lazy son. While the two men are traveling, she ventures into town to buy food and ultimately meets her demise in the woods.
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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was a novelist and short story writer known for his subjective works and influence on writers like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. He had a varied career, working as a businessman and advertising writer, before a mental breakdown in 1912 led him to become a full-time writer. His most famous work, Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of interconnected short stories exploring small-town life.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
June 23, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 56 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-29-0
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
A sly, melancholy reimagining of the astronaut history forgot.
The first three men on the moon return to parades, book deals, and instant mythmaking. But the fourth? He steps onto the lunar surface only minutes later and finds himself erased before he even gets home. What follows is a wry, unsettling portrait of a man watching his own legacy evaporate in real time.
Bryan Hurt turns the machinery of fame inside out, exposing how quickly collective memory calcifies—and how arbitrary the line is between the celebrated and the invisible. Part satire, part elegy, The Fourth Man lingers with its quiet ache, reminding us that history is less a record than a spotlight, and someone is always standing just outside its beam.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France (Red Hen, 2018), winner of the 10th Annual Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is the editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (OR Books/Catapult, 2016) and former Editor in Chief of The Arkansas International, and former Midwest editor at Joyland. His work has appeared in places like McSweeney’s, Guernica, and Kenyon Review Online.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 32 PAGES | $12.00
978-1-954992-13-9
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
Glenn Gould favored solitude because he felt that purity was contaminated by the world, by the competition and judgments of the world, and his goal was to preserve that purity.
Glenn Gould struggled throughout his life with physical and psychological problems that threatened to overwhelm him. Eccentric, enigmatic, paranoid, hypochondriac, reclusive, genius—Glenn Gould wore all of these labels.
In these six imagined vignettes, John Haskell attempts to get past these labels to explore the interior life and persona of the man, examining the unique world he created for himself.
John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock, and the novels American Purgatorio and Out of My Skin. He’s also the author of The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts. His work has also appeared in A Public Space, n+1,Conjunctions, and McSweeney’s.
May 19, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-17-7
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
Our people had moved to Bounty because the land was there and it was empty, and now all we had was the emptiness and one another.
When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter. What begins as one family’s attempt to escape their sorrow spreads across town, drawing neighbors into a collective hibernation that promises rest, renewal, and release—at a cost no one can fully name.
Horrocks writes with the emotional acuity of a realist and the imaginative charge of a fabulist, turning a quiet premise into a haunting meditation on rest, avoidance, and the strange rituals communities build around loss.
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collections Life Among the Terranauts and This Is Not Your City, both New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. The Wall Street Journal named her novel The Vexations one of the Ten Best Books of 2019. Her stories and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, One Story, and other journals and anthologies. She was previously a senior fiction editor at The Kenyon Review.
OCTOBER 14, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-21-4
ESSAY | PHILOSOPHY | CHAPBOOK
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
Published in 1863, this essay, originally delivered as a lecture, challenges the wisdom of focusing on material wealth over moral and spiritual values.
Life Without Principle is a timeless reminder to all of us to reconsider what truly constitutes a life well-lived and to seek a path that leads to genuine satisfaction and ethical living.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher, renowned for his transcendentalist beliefs and his writings on nature and simple living. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon his two-year experience living in a cabin at Walden Pond, and his essay, “Civil Disobedience.”
APRIL 18, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 56 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-18-4
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
What would you sacrifice to save the one you love?
When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond. Confronted by a giant, talking frog, she faces an impossible choice: surrender to nature’s limits or embrace a transformation that blurs the line between human and animal.
Baglio masterfully blends fairy-tale magic with raw emotional realism, crafting a tale that is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Frog Heart lingers long after the final lines, asking readers to consider the lengths we go to preserve life—and the strange bargains love demands.
Joy Deva Baglio is a speculative-literary fiction writer whose short stories have appeared widely in journals such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction,Conjunctions, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization based in Northampton MA (and virtually). She is at work on a collection of short fiction and three speculative-literary novels. She lives in Northampton MA, where she can also be found playing the bagpipes, running, and scheming up adventures. Visit her online at www.JoyBaglio.com.
February 10, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-28-3
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
“Death in the Woods” is a signal junction in Anderson's career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language."—Jim Harrison
A deceptively simple story of the life and death of a downtrodden farm woman who lives with her abusive husband and their lazy son. While the two men are traveling, she ventures into town to buy food and ultimately meets her demise in the woods.
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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was a novelist and short story writer known for his subjective works and influence on writers like William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. He had a varied career, working as a businessman and advertising writer, before a mental breakdown in 1912 led him to become a full-time writer. His most famous work, Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of interconnected short stories exploring small-town life.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
MAY 5, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-01-6
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
“If you want to read a story version of Being John Malkovich transferred to the mind of Mr. Waits, here you go, minus the scheming plot.”—The Florida Review (Online)
Peek inside the mind of the fictional Tom Waits as he wanders the streets of El Lay. From the La Brea Tar Pits to the Hollywood Bowl and beyond, the traveling troubadour muses on everything from the nocturnal habits of peacocks to William Burroughs’ dipsomania. He questions the teleological purpose of concrete and wryly observes that “Jupiter is a bitch-ass planet.”
He conceives a rock opera while walking the length of Sunset Boulevard in a sandwich board, and the arias tumble out. On his way to Little Ethiopia, he gets lost in Little Armenia and winds up in Little Tokyo. But wherever he roams, a little voice inside his head keeps asking—does anyone even know who I am?
Janice Margolis is a Los Angeles-based writer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She is the author of the short story collection, Termination Shocks, which won the 2018 Juniper Prize for Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). She is also an AFI Film Finalist, has four films in development, has recently completed a play, "God's Green Earth," and has finished her first novel, World Full of Noise.
January 20, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-27-6
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house …
Emily Grierson is an eccentric and reclusive woman from a once-respected Southern family. Isolated in her mansion after her father’s death. She gives art lessons to the young children of the town to support herself, and—for a time—becomes friendly with a laborer who comes to town. For years, townspeople only see a manservant coming in and out of the house and they’re all too curious about the happenings inside and why there’s such a powerful odor emanating from the property.
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William Faulkner (1897–1962) was a novelist and short-story writer, best known for his works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, including The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. Faulkner received two Pulitzer Prizes and the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
JUNE 16, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-05-4
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
“Allegra Hyde writes with a genius scientist’s impassioned inquiry, and a poet’s lyrical, exquisite precision.”
—Tara Ison, author of Ball: Stories
In The Future Consequences of Present Actions, we meet Charles Lane, an 18th-century Transcendentalist who founded the Fruitlands commune along with Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of Louisa May. The commune fails, and the disenchanted Lane moves with his son to a Shaker village.
In his eagerness to find “heaven on earth” within the Shaker community, Lane inadvertently enlists his son into indentured servitude and learns the true cost of his utopian search.
Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times. Her debut novel, Eleutheria, was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and her first story collection, Of This New World,won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She currently teaches at Smith College.
DECEMBER 16, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-26-9
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
The door of Henry’s Lunchroom opened and two men came in …
Ernest Hemingway explores the casual nature of evil in this bleak short story set in a small town outside of Chicago.
It’s a winter evening, around dusk, and Nick Adams is sitting at the counter of a diner in Summit, Illinois when two strangers enter the diner. They’re looking for a boxer called the Swede and they intend to kill him.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for his concise, understated writing style. His novels, including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, are considered American classics. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Afterword by Nasrullah Mambrol.
JULY 7, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-09-2
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORY
After seventy years of successful preservation, Lenin’s body is deteriorating faster than the morticians and biochemical scientists can manage.
In the tumultuous years following the fall of Communism, Valentina Nikolaevna, a lonely, aging functionary at Lenin’s Mausoleum, is tasked with preserving the steadily decaying corpse of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Dark spots have begun to appear on Lenin’s forehead, and visitors are starting to notice the stench. A few days ago, a piece of Lenin’s ear fell off in Valentina’s hand.
Blending surreal imagery with biting satire, Lioutaia turns the act of embalming into a meditation on history, bureaucracy, and the fragility of human legacy and explores how societies cling to symbols long after their vitality has faded. Preservation is a darkly inventive story about memory, decay, and the impossible task of holding onto the past.
Maria Lioutaia was born in Moscow and now lives and writes in Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Conjunctions, Master’s Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
NOVEMBER 25, 2025
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-25-2
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
“Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of—what? That life's like that, it seems.”
During a train journey, the narrator imagines the life story of a fellow passenger. As fiction and reality blur, the story reveals how imagination shapes our understanding of others and ourselves.
Written in Virginia Woolf's signature stream-of-consciousness style, this short story offers readers a glimpse into the intricate workings of the human mind through a seemingly ordinary train trip.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist, critic, and publisher who became a key figure of literary modernism. She was the author of many novels, among them Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism, including the influential feminist essay A Room of One’s Own.
Afterword by Michelle Bailat-Jones.