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Unemployable

by Alysia Silberg

It all started with a pair of pretty pink roller skates. I was just a little girl, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, my heart set on them. But I knew my parents couldn’t afford them. So I formulated a plan. I started my first “small business,” selling old suits on the street until I’d made enough dough for the purchase. The start of my life as an entrepreneur. A life that would rescue me from years of childhood trauma—from abuse, and turmoil, and even a gunshot wound—and eventually bring ... more

The Man Behind the Curtain

by Jessica Renee with Valerie Dimino

Jessica Renee survived years of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather only to then face years of another kind of abuse in the wake of reporting it, when her mother, brother, and church community chose to believe her rapist and attempted to shame her into continued silence. She has now chosen to use her voice to speak these difficult truths and provide a guiding light to other survivors who are still searching for hope.

What's Wrong with Grandma?: ¿Qué Le Pasa a Abuelita?

by Niurka Ozuna

Have you ever met someone who sees things that aren’t there; thinks you can feel their pain; hears voices when it’s silent; says things that didn’t really happen or thinks people are following them, when they are not? This children's story reveals grandma's strange behavior associated with schizophrenia that slowly regresses during a visit. Day by day the siblings witness grandma's progression from baseline to decompensation leading up to grandma going to the hospital. They are then given a ... more

A Black Man's Existence as a White Jew

by Eric B. Willis

In this memoir, A Black Man's Existence as a White Jew, award-winning author, genealogist, and historian Eric B. Willis uncovers a mysterious part of his family's history relating to the ongoing racial discriminatory practices against Black Americans and the perceived advantages and challenges of racial passing. In 2003, Willis began a genealogical exploration which would forever impact the lives and lineages of two American families--his black family and his maternal cousin's white family. A... more

My Other Left: a wicked pissah memoir on finding your way

by charlene alofs

Charlene is a joy to have in class, but she lacks confidence and needs constant reassurance.” ~Mrs. McCarthy, Charlene’s 3rd-grade teacher comment section of her report card

“Kids are so resilient. She will be just fine.”

I am

a doubter ✔️

a loser ✔️

not worthy ✔️

Words to live by growing up fatherless with a struggling single parent. Words to live by while maintaining my “resiliency.”

He walked out when I was ... more

Cosmo and Me

by Jim Willis

Theologian, educator, musician, and retired minister Jim Willis takes readers on a personal journey from the 1950s to the present day, relating stories of his life in concert with his observations of a changing America. His personal religious and spiritual growth offers many parallels with the changes experienced in American society as he seeks spiritual balance and peace of mind while entertaining readers with stories of his professional and personal life along the way.

Wood Like Iron, An American Home

by Michael Boyajian

Join the author and his late wife Jeri, both history buffs, as they discover their dream house a salt box like those that they fell in love with in Quincy Mass., the adjacent saltbox homes of father and son John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives Abagail or Portia if you will whose words to her husband at the Continental Congress on the cusp of the Declaration of Independence, Remember the Ladies, still rings true almost 250 years later and of course Louisa JQA’s iron. The hist... more

The Lucky Seven

by Norman W. Holden

During the early afternoon hours of April 24, 1944, Second Lieutenant James J. Goebel, Jr. finds himself floating alone toward the war-torn Belgian landscape below. What was his safe passage home, his B-24 Liberator, is now engulfed in flames and hurls to the ground only to report back with a distant thud upon the earth. Just moments earlier, the B-24 and its crew of ten were en route back to England after their inaugural bombing mission and the successful pounding of the Nazi war machine. At... more

Journals, Volume 2: 2002-2022

by Matt Cardin

In this second volume of his journals, Matt Cardin continues his ruminations on the subjects he has made his own—the theory and practice of weird fiction, the complexities of religious belief, and the relation between these two seemingly disparate realms. We find fascinating synopses of stories written and unwritten; reflections on films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious to Chariots of Fire; accounts of bizarre dreams that have plagued the author; analyses of such writers ... more

I Don't Want You To Regret Anything: A Memoir

by Madison Letts

Sometimes Madison allowed herself to think the thoughts you’re not supposed to think. Quietly, she’d let her mind slip and imagine a world after he died. It’s funny, the way your imagination will alter reality. There’s a fine line between denial and hope...

Madison fell in love with a boy named Knox when she was a junior in college. He opened car doors for her, he brought her coffee in bed, and he called her baby. Knox and Madison talked about getting married one... more

In Pursuit of Radio Mom: Searching For the Mother I Never Had

by Terry Crylen

In Pursuit of Radio Mom brings the reader tight to Terry Crylen’s side as it traces her path from frequent and debilitating anxiety, loneliness, and shame—and a dysfunctional marriage that mirrors the dynamics of her relationship with her mother—to the discovery of her authentic self and the happiness and fulfillment such a transformation brings. Radio Mom also illuminates the ways in which one generation impacts the next—both wittingly and unwittingly—when later, while pressing along the diffic... more

Lady Slippers

by Bernice Dietrich and Melissa Bini

A life bookended by pandemics, explores growing up in the tri-state area during the Great Depression and World War II. A lot changes over a century of life; from indoor plumbing to social media. After working multiple jobs during a recession, Bernice and her high school sweetheart, Henry, are finally able to get married. The honeymoon is disrupted when word from home notified the couple that Henry had received his draft notice. The war changes life on Staten Island with anti-aircraft units... more

A Generation of Leaves: A Ukrainian Journey 1923-1948

by Christine Foster

The struggle of the Ukrainian people did not just begin in February of 2022 but much earlier– as is abundantly clear in the pages of A Generation of Leaves; A Ukrainian Journey. It is the coming-of-age story of a young man born in Western Ukraine in 1923, a now vanished rural landscape lovingly depicted in the memoirs of the late Ivan Kochan, son of a prominent Ukrainian politician and patriot. Often charming and sometimes frightening, the story not only dramatizes Ivan’s growth and developm... more

The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry

by Shari Lopatin

In this special memoir told through a collection of earlier works including fictional short stories, non-fiction essays, and poetry, Shari Lopatin tells the story of her younger self—a millennial coming of age through the 1990s and 2000s while fighting to make sense of a world rapidly changing amidst The Great Recession and September 11. Touching on themes still relevant today, Shari shares deeply emotional pieces from her formative years about mental health, the search for home, the awkwardness... more

How Did I Get Here?

by Kim Idol

Kim Idol is a writer/instructor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, partial to dogs, guns, rock-climbing and backpack traveling. She has been in love with Nepal since she first visited 8 years ago. She knew she loved the outdoors and that she would love the Himalayas, but she was unexpectedly charmed by the wildlife and the people she met on her first trip and upon returning home immediately began saving and planning in order to return. Eight years later after a tough year at home, a random mous... more

Script of a Bad Year

by Kim Idol

Script of a Bad Year is a collection of short stories that covers a narrative arc from the ensuing events of a bad year (including two deaths, one suicide, a brutal divorce, job loss, and my financial free fall) and ends in recovery and perspective, with a true “what I learned” moment. Moments of emotional explosions that demanded immediate expression, these stories flowed from my pen, almost unbidden. Sometimes the news hits when you least expect it, and you have to take notes.

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