In the Iowa countryside, the corn keeps growing. People keep working. And some things are easier left unsaid. Corn Sweat is a collection of twelve short stories and ten interwoven vignettes exploring contemporary rural life across the fields, gravel roads, river bottoms, small towns, bars, farms, and forgotten corners of Iowa and the Great Plains. […]

An Army officer knocks on the door only a few days before Christmas-and a family’s world quietly unravels. When Marshall Gatlin retreats to his dusty attic in search of solace, he stumbles upon an old notebook tucked inside a forgotten box. Written by his son Jake at the age of eleven, the letters inside are […]

Policy says hold it thirty days. He holds it ninety. Nobody has ever asked him why. For thirty-one years, Moss Iqbal has kept what other people left behind at Chicago Union Station. A wedding ring in a potato chip bag. A child’s inhaler. Four skeins of yarn for a baby who hadn’t been born yet. […]

Never Stop… Jason Nash knows better than most how your whole life can change in an instant. After a dark tragedy nearly destroys his entire existence, he’s left to pick up the pieces and somehow forge a future for himself. With support and guidance from his friend and mentor, Chuck Garcia, Jason discovers a new […]

Fiction for people who ask inconvenient questions… …and don’t want convenient answers. Against his better judgment, Stanley picks up the mysterious hitchhiker and starts down a path he isn’t prepared to take. This hitchhiker is like no person Stanley has ever met or even heard about and has answers no one has even been able […]

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and […]

Some duties cannot be delegated. Some words cannot be taken back. Wang Xiu has built a precise London life: a career in numbers, a partner of twenty years who understands her without being asked, and a promise still unkept. Two years after her mother’s death, the ashes wait on a shelf in Beijing, for Xiu […]