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From the author of the novel, The Hummingbirds, comes the debut story collection, Below the Falls. Two climbers in the North Cascades risk their friendship and lives ascending a frozen waterfall. The girlfriend of a famous comedian in Greenwich Village must decide whether she wants to raise a child in the spotlight of fame. A mysterious Bird of Paradise makes daily overtures to an elderly widow in the frigid Midwest. A Texas fracking mogul struggles to find the love his money prevents. The deeply rendered American landscapes of these stories emerge as a vital background for characters faced with conflicts that cannot be easily resolved, illuminating interior worlds filled with contradiction. Written in sharp, poignant prose, Below the Falls is a collection filled with passion, tenderness, love, and peril.

From the author of the flash fiction chapbook, A Bright and Pleading Dagger, comes the debut story collection, Tender Hoof: Stories. In these pages, Rivas compactly merges the brutal with the surreal, blurring the line between safety and danger, sinner and saint. Twin girls accept a strange man's invitation; a young author's purported reincarnation leads to fame and misfortune; a lone bicyclist cycles her way through a lifetime of peril; not even a fairytale can save children from the flaws of their parents. With blade-sharp prose, Rivas creates a profound cast of characters that generate momentum till the very last page.

After months of sleeping out of his car and surviving on vending machine snacks from the YMCA, 19-year-old Lane finally finds a job that will take him in. Dawn and Gayle, the elderly couple who run Full Moon Records, see in him a kindred spirit and quickly become the accepting family he wished he had. They only have one rule: don't go in the basement. Cover design by Angelo Maneage

All his life, the unnamed narrator of this darkly comic and deeply strange novella has believed he's a lizard person. After an incident at work, he's sent to a coastal resort for intensive therapy to confront the truth of his peculiar identity. But amid days of lounging by the pool with his fellow recoverings, intensive sessions with a therapist, and the appearance of a love interest with ill intentions, his self-discovery remains elusive. Cover art and design by Angelo Maneage

When the death of his son's murderer fails to ease his pain, a grieving father finds himself on a mission for vengeance. On death row, the convicted killer grapples for meaning as he considers the path his life has taken and what lies ahead. Two lives connected by violence. Two men navigating the tenuous space between devastation and oblivion. In that place, is there room for peace?

From the author of the critically-acclaimed books, Theater of Animals and Recital, is a poetry collection in which memory is recollected. With 5 distinct and lucid sections, this poetry book revives the authors' childhood dreams and nightmares, masterfully penned. Poems in this collection have appeared in Ploughshares, Anomaly Literary Journal, Chaffin Journal, and others.

The characters in Nature Trail Stories escape to nature and commune with it. A housewife fantasizes about avenues of her own demise, a young man wants to save his addict brother from himself, a counseling patient tries therapeutic screaming instead, a mother seeks bonding with her teenage son during lockdown, a young woman finds healing through sexual exploration at a music festival. Ruminative and reflective, Nature Trail Stories interrogates humans' desperation for and struggle with connection, highlighting the power of solitude as an agent of personal alchemy.

As intricate as it is macrocosmic, this poetry collection from Adam Gianforcaro sketches a portrait of human existence in a world that is dying in slow-motion. These poems acknowledge the vastness and chaos of the cosmos, and life as we know it, without sparing us the full brunt of our own role in its downfall. Gianforcaro reminds us that the everyday-a clog of hair in a sink drain-is as metaphysical as it is mundane. A collection that reckons with climate change, queerness, and the universe at large, Every Living Day walks the line between damning and hopeful. More than that, it makes you question whether those things are so different after all.

Bobby Washburn, a weed dealer who lives with his alcoholic, spiraling mother, are native to Buffalo, NY. Bobby and his associates discover a way to pry them away from poverty: selling Xanax acquired from the dark web. Their small-time business becomes more spontaneous and sinister as they encroach on a rival syndicate. Crime and substance abuse entraps Bobby as he morphs into a reflection of his estranged, incarcerated father. Is there a way out of the slush, other than a pine box below the frost line?

VOID, by Alla Vilnyanskaya, takes a closer look a femicide and American literary culture. The collection includes translations of Ukrainian poet, Anastasia Afanas'eva. In a parallel universe, Afanas'eva's poems are the metaphysical double that takes us into the uncanny realm of the imagination. This book contains poems previously published in Poetry International, Asymptote, Saint Ann's Review, and Schlag Magazine, among others.

The 2nd issue of our 3rd volume, enjoy the poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by Benjamin Bartu, Michael Chang, Capella Parrish, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, and more. Cover image by Connor Doyle.

In the aftermath of her first serious long-term relationship, the book''s protagonist, a 22-year-old woman caught in the loop of a dead-end data entry job, takes a trip out of the city to collect her thoughts and visit her friend, Sidney, at her hometown. Every year, Sidney throws a loosely-defined "festival" in which she invites her wide and widely-varied circle of friends to stay in her family''s empty house for a long weekend of debauchery. This time, however, she''s looking for a distraction, and she finds it in the form of Jay, a 40-something manual laborer who wastes no time in prying into her various emotional and existential burdens.

The debut poetry collection by Anthony Desmond, Martyrs of a Certain Belief wraps the self at the stake and blows the flames asunder. Prominent, melancholic, and colorfully despondent, this collection wants to be loved, even when the last page is burned from existence.

Keep Her In Your Mouth, Steph Castor''s 2nd full-length poetry collection, is a series of snapshots from a different kind of love poet. Retracing the past year in the life of a self-proclaimed bonne vivante, KHIYM is a mediation on food, sex, travel, and relationships-a reminder to stay present, have a hunger for new experiences, lean into fear, have an unabashed lust for food, embrace adventure in intimacy, and hold onto those rare folks of pure gold. Similarly to I Love You Is Back by Derrick C. Brown, The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson, and If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird.

Better Bones is a collection of lyrical hybrid stories that focuses on the way the body holds memories, desires, and self-destructive tendencies. The pieces combine real-life landscapes, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Long Island, as well as childlike mythical places, as the narrator moves backward and forwards, through childhood to adulthood, in order to make sense of their surroundings and decisions."Better Bones wallows in the after. It explores longing and nostalgia and finds in them beauty broken down. Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is the Leonard Cohen of burnt tongues and broken sidewalks-of digging through desire and eating with dirty fingers. Heartfelt and sensual, Better Bones unravels and coils around you one ruined piece at a time."-Daniel DiFranco, author of Panic Years"Say Comyns and Carrington plotted a miraculous high five-Better Bones would break through their palms. An ouch to peel and tweeze, even tease. To deny the opportunity of familiarizing yourself with Canarella is to suffer an extraterrestrial score of deprivation. This is the other side of real life. It has everything: hardball comedy, sweets, and blood."-Barracuda Guarisco, author of Narwhal/Red Dolphin & Uncomfortable Music

The first issue of Tilde for 2020, read over 30 contributors in poetry. fiction, and creative nonfiction. Featuring Adam McOmber, Brendan Walsh, Rachel Nolan, Amber D. Tran, and more. Cover photo by Rebecca Goodman.

Following her successes from All the Ghosts We’ve Always Had, critically-acclaimed flash fiction writer, Jules Archer, returns to the dinner table with Little Feasts, her debut short story collection. The stories are a table-long buffet of femininity, a lying tree, childhood innocence, toxic masculinity, and a 20-pound cast-iron skillet. Works within have been featured in Five:2:One, SmokeLong Quarterly, Maudlin House, PANK, and more.