An object becomes a woman, and the world refuses to adjust its gaze.

What’s next for IKE: A Publishing Project?

A tender and deeply American story about motion, memory, and the invisible forces that shape a family.

A sly, melancholy reimagining of the astronaut history forgot.

Darin Mount is a singular force in contemporary papercut illustration—a meticulous craftsperson whose work balances precision, atmosphere, and emotional resonance.

Vol. 1 Brooklyn has included The Sleep by Caitlin Horrocks in their May 2026 monthly reading recommendations

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.

Celebrate Short Story Month with IKE: A Publishing Project.

Brief Encounters is a 52-book collection of short novels and classic, captivating stories to be read in a single sitting or savored over days. 

Free giveaway of Frog Heart by Joy Deva Baglio along with a copy of the Ploughshares’ Summer 2024 issue in which the story first appeared.

Bryan Hurt’s The Fourth Man puts a spotlight on Alan Bean—the astronaut who walked on the moon yet spent his life in the long shadow of the men who touched the surface first.

When Albert Rasmussen loses his wife, he proposes something unthinkable: that he and his children sleep through the winter.

When her infant daughter’s failing heart leaves her desperate for a miracle, a mother is drawn to a mysterious pond.

Joy Deva Baglio writes with a rare, electric clarity—the kind that makes the familiar feel newly charged and the uncanny feel inevitable.

“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

Sherwood Anderson published a number of novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, and memoirs during his lifetime, but he is best known for Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

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 …

Ernest Hemingway explores the casual nature of evil in this bleak short story set in a small town outside of Chicago.

A fleeting glance at a stranger on a train sparks an entire invented life—woven with suspense, empathy, and illusion.

Handcrafted papercuts and archival quality prints from Darin Mount for our upcoming Modernist chapbooks.