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A Beginning

by John M. Murray

An accessible entry point to an ongoing tale, "A Beginning" follows life in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. In Brandon Pawlicki’s horror novel "A Beginning", a killer targets a respected leader in the midst of a waning zombie... Read More

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Lonely Women Make Good Lovers

by Matt Sutherland

It’s not easy being Keetje—so truthstakingly, heartgapingly, cliffedgingly vulnerable and live. The experience of her poetry feels dangerous, capable of triggering changes both lasting and longed for. That she recognizes love as... Read More

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In the Bone-Cracking Cold

by Matt Sutherland

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the least-populated region in the lower 48. Walking a riverbank, you are more likely to meet a black bear, wolf, bobcat, or whitetail deer than you are a human—which is why M. Bartley Seigel calls the UP... Read More

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Dog and Moon

by Matt Sutherland

If you walk long enough to see your hair turn gray, fending brush from your face through starless nights, note taking to the cadence of seasons, your poetry will reach great heights—that is, if Kelly Shepherd’s modus operandi holds... Read More

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We Contain Landscapes

by Matt Sutherland

Neuroscientists speculate that humans might have thirty or more senses, and we speculate that Patrycja Humienik’s acute sense of longing for a place that no longer exists on a map affects the way she perceives all the others. She is an... Read More

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Snake in the Grass

by Karen Rigby

A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

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