"The Savior of 6th Street" is Orlando Ortega-Medina’s lucid and engrossing new novel about a man who grows up in Los Angeles’s dark, 1980s underworld. Virgilio is twenty... Read More

Two men bond over sex, violence, and shared emotional and psychological trauma in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s neo noir "The Death of Baseball", about identity, sexuality, and... Read More

Personal vendettas lead to political upheaval in Tim Murgatroyd’s "Pilgrim Tale". A hundred years in the future, after the Great Dying has wiped out much of the world’s... Read More

Chuck Caruso’s "The Meaning of Blood" promises a descent into a netherworld of blood and perversity, and it delivers on this as well as something even more heinous: the idea... Read More

These thirteen stories are atmospheric, focusing on complicated relationships with skill. More than a little dark, but still grounded, Orlando Ortega-Medina’s Jerusalem... Read More