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To corrupt his depressed country's currency, anti-hero President John Hyde schemes with Dr. La Brea, his satanic backer, to foster a Faustian program of spending 3-dollar bills called "The Modern Deal.'' Hyde kills an opposed Court Justice, and to fill his vacancy names a former friend Frances Harkins, a judge in a local case against Helen Scopes, Hyde's promised amour. Helen is charged for teaching school children his doctrine of "monkey spending'' in violation of a local ordinance. The plot starts going wrong-or right. Frances, Helen, and Mrs. Hyde welcome news of economic recovery, and credit Hyde. Before midnight tolls La Brea's deadline, Hyde tries planting counterfeit and arson to reverse the reversal.

The Garden of Fragile Beings is a collection of poems that confront life, illness and loss with a nurse's intimacy and a poet's unflinching examination of how we carry on with such knowledge.

The poems in Explorations are reflections and observations on nature and life. Bookended by Rotunda Dreams and Appalachian Dawn, the poem Western Explorations is a Whitman-esque series of poemettes in which the author's journey through several National Parks in the American West which parallels a spiritual journey of the soul. Rotunda Dreams recounts a beautifully warm spring evening sitting on the steps of Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Meanwhile, Appalachian Dawn chronicles a magical morning drive through the mountains of western Virginia and West Virginia.

Caitlin Wolper is a Brooklyn-based poet whose work examines Judaism, identity, and the female body. Through her time in college and travel with Birthright Israel-and as part of her Master's thesis at Pennsylvania State University-she found inherent conflict between her culture and her beliefs. That thesis became Ordering Coffee in Tel Aviv, a coming-of-age narrative that takes place in both Israel and in the US. Most concerning to her is identity and identification: She identifies with fallen Jewish paratrooper and poet Hannah Senesh but simultaneously can't even use her Hebrew name to order coffee for fear she might not recognize it as her own. Rife with exploration of cyclical family issues and the harrowing experience of growing up a woman, Wolper's first chapbook takes minute, quotidian occurrences and inflects them with thought in brief, succinct poems. Her work has previously appeared in Ghost City Review, Longleaf Review, Yes Poetry, and more; she also has bylines in Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, MTV News, Reuters, Brooklyn magazine, New York Family, and more.

This author has been around long enough to know that nothing lasts forever; that much of what we hold dear isn't worth keeping; and that where we end up isn't always as dark as we feared (sometimes it's even darker). There's a lot to be seen and felt along the way. This author has "been there / done that" and is settling, reasonably comfortably, into the aftermath.

The poems in Last Days of an Old Dog are observations from rural West Virginia, including farm life with horses, nature, and thoughts about Heaven. Sharp and concise, these poems embody a "graceful quickness" that will entice the reader to return to them again and again.

Choose Your Own Adventure and other poems invites you to take a journey through the many dimensions of womanhood as you explore-- along with a few animal friends-- ancient rituals of partnership, parenting, love, and separation. In the title piece, a long form poem written in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, the protagonist is a single American female on a vacation cruise in the Galápagos Islands. In each chapter, she tries on the mating rituals of a different animal as she looks for the "perfect partnership pattern." Accompanied by Simpson's original watercolor illustrations, this poem first appeared in Rattle's Summer 2018 issue. The collection culminates with five shorter poems. In "The Scent of a Man," nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Third Wednesday, the speaker goes out for a night of dancing tango and one-by-one, acquires the smells of each man she dances with while simultaneously losing her own scents. This collection will have you laughing out loud and pondering your own animalistic journey on this earth, only to discover that we all still have some evolving left to do.