JULY 7, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-33-7
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
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.
__________________________________
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.
JULY 7, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-33-7
FICTION | SHORT STORY | CHAPBOOK
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.
__________________________________
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.
