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An anthology of previously unpublished short stories, selected and edited by Steve McEllistrem and Cynthia Kraack, by authors of Calumet Editions, which includes a mixed genre short story by Ian Graham Leask.

Law Firm Confidential is a provocative story that chronicles the career of the very studious Paige Turner, who has all the necessary qualifications to succeed. But in this corporate world of innuendos and obscured language lines become quickly blurred. Words like "teamwork" and "team player" make or break careers. But Paige's image does more than opens doors. It surpasses expectations and charms invisible serpents to the surface, slithering with nonverbal, naked demands for sexual favors that disintegrate a firewall of protective policies. This disarming novella takes readers on a charming journey of the young life and times of Paige Turner.

Alexander Haralson, the deranged star of Leonard Borman's eccentric debut novel Our Jewish Robot Future, returns--only slightly more sane-in his new effort, Fix the Roads, as a retired accountant who wants to start a new career as a stand-up comedian. His ambition is to tell it like it is to the corrupt politicians and be the new Lenny Bruce, but with his well-used heart all aflutter over his new mistress Flossy, and his beloved city of Detroit suffering dire deterioration, he's in for a bumpy ride.

Lovely and talented Hassie Calhoun arrives in Las Vegas to make it as a singer. Her beauty immediately opens doors at the Sands Hotel, but that same beauty draws her into a dangerous relationship with her brooding lover, Jake, and attracts the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra. Like the goddess Persephone, Hassie finds herself torn between the darkness and the light the two men offer. Jake is her personal Hades, whose love borders on obsession, and Hassie's innocence keeps her from recognizing the dangers that she invites. With her innocence and identity on the line, the road to stardom puts Hassie in several compromising situations. Author Cory offers a deceptively sophisticated look into the life of an ambitious young woman during the era of the Rat Pack, whose very passions impede her dreams in a way that many women could secretly relate to.

An anthology of previously unpublished short stories by multiple authors.

Rachel Kemper Kelsey was fourth on her parents' emergency contact list so an evening phone call from their physician signals a major calamity. Her mother Katherine, who rigidly controls family communications, has avoided contact with her older daughter for years.As the family crisis deepen, Katherine is declared a vulnerable adult and removed from the home. Rachel's father, Art, increasingly leans on Rachel to make the transition work. But Rachel's brother and sister, two alcoholic narcissists, fight to bring their mother home.Rachel, a psychologist and author of self-help books for families, has the respect of her father and the medical community, but is resented by her mother and siblings. As Katherine slowly slides into dementia and failing health, Art renews his relationship with the daughter his tyrannical wife had banished from their home years ago, causing a family rift with tragic consequences.With characters as rich as those in stories by Anita Shreve, Pat Conroy or Sue Miller, The High Cost of Flowers is an American story as classic as suburbs, working parents, and multi-generational confrontation. The characters are people who readers will recognize in their neighborhoods, their kids' schools and their own families. The hardest part of living is watching Katherine die.

What is prayer if not the acknowledgement of one's relationship to the Divine? What is poetry if not a kind of prayer that rises from the heart in image and metaphor? What is this book if not the poems offered up as testimony to the author's relationship to the Divine? From his entry into the religious life in 1965 to the 2020's pandemic pause, these are intimate prayers, images of life lived in times of transition, and metaphors of how one understands what it means to be human.

These poems by an undiscovered Minnesota author, celebrate nature, music, love and loss, plus a lovely short story, all conjuring a snapshot of the mid-twentieth century. June Skjervold's dedication to "everyday poets" offers the best insight to understanding her work. The poems demonstrate that which appears in our daily lives as mundane is actually wrapped in the supernatural and natural worlds with their beauty available to all the everyday poets. June says that her inspiration was based on observations of the world around her and she "just wrote it down". June is perhaps too modest in that summary considering the care and depth of expression that went into producing prosody of such structure and stylistic variety. The poems illustrate that the everyday world we live in is rounded with magic that resonates with the poet in us all.

How do you paint a regret? As single parents each with two young daughters, Tearza and Ryan struggle with loss, love, and their mistakes. Tearza is devastated with guilt over her husband's sudden suicide and the loss of her job. She's worried about the grief consuming her daughters, Marci, and Ella, and afraid to move forward because every time she loves something she loses it. Ryan lost his wife through divorce due to Post-Partum Depression which led to her chemical dependency. Obsessed with his desire to make partner in a prestigious law firm, he struggles to balance work and his two daughters, the same age as Tearza's. Wounded by his past mistakes and broken promises as a husband, he fears he's failing as a father and mother to Sarah and Gracie. Time is running out. If he doesn't make changes soon, he'll regret it for the rest of his life. Together, Tearza and Ryan learn to make difficult choices that come with risk. Their relationship follows the circle of life through four seasons in one year. Along the journey, they discover how their worst regrets become their greatest blessings.

These poems boldly appropriate lines from interviews with famous and infamous artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and architects, and with these found lines construct small literary objects with something new to say. The pattern of intense repetition creates an incantation in which shifts in meaning occur as the repeated lines are slightly revised and given a new context. The sampled lines reverberate between stanzas, creating echoes that slow us down, providing startling sonic views. Mark Strand and Eavan Boland in The Making of a Poem, call the pantoum a ""perfect form for the evocation of a past time."" This mash-up of that ancient form with the interview offers unexpected glimpses of the creative process that are nearly perfect for this strange time now. Quotes about interviews instead of quotes about the book itself?My opposition to interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.-James ThurberI get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to.-Emma StoneThere's lots of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.-Imogen PootsMy wife thinks I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answers on the guitar.-David GilmourI've never really done any interviews as myself.-Sacha Baron CohenI never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.-Bob RossI often conduct interviews in my truck.-William Shatner

Ukrainian Nights is one of those gritty, unforgettable noir novels that takes its main protagonist to the nadir of love and obsession and then spits him out, almost broken. Hunter, a young New York Times journalist, assigned to investigate sex slavery and money laundering in Kiev just after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is not a tough guy, not in the least, but he falls in love with Alina, the mistress of Karasov--the head of Ukraine's largest mafia--and refuses to let go of her. The love story is run against a background of desperate brutality in Kiev and New York City, the result of the competing interests of international geopolitics, drug money, human trafficking, crooked banking--and for the rich spoils of oil and gas. The plot of Ukrainian Nights twists and turns and the reader is left wondering who is right and who is wrong.

HIS MISSION: TO DISMANTLE THE SYRIAN STATE. An Ambassador to Syria draws the reader into the shadowy beginnings of ISIS and its role in the disastrous Syrian conflict. The story, begun in Sultan's previous thrillers The Syrian and Damascus Street, continues with the arrival in Damascus of Robert Jenkins. He is no ordinary ambassador, nor is his mission one which could be described as routine. He is charged with initiating civil unrest to generate regime change, and the bloody havoc brought about in the ancient town of Homs is just the beginning. Is Bashar Assad a brutal dictator, as portrayed by Western media, or is he a Syrian nationalist intent on protecting his country from outside interference? Perhaps both, for in this ancient place of lost innocence there is always room for multiple truths. (827)"I love Cathy Sultan's latest work set in Syria. She catches the nuance and complexity of the situation when most authors write in bumper sticker slogans and speak in sound bites. As with her memoir, A Beirut Heart: One Woman's War, Cathy brings life to her work by creating compelling characters that feel like they live in the real world."-Jack Rice, former Central Intelligence Agency Officer.

John C. Donahue was considered a brilliant but difficult artistic genius in American theater in the 70s and 80s. His theater, the Children's Theatre Company and School (CTC), rose to the heights of critical acclaim. It was also a home to more than two dozen sexual perpetrators. In 1984, Donahue's arrest for sexually abusing male students threatened to close the theater's curtains for good. The theater endured and the full truth of what was happening behind the scenes was swept under the rug, until now.Stearns' memoir follows her process of coming to terms with experiencing childhood sexual violence at CTC, of recognizing the depth of harm from a complicit culture which allowed child abuse at the theater to go unchecked for decades, and her journey of growing beyond trauma to a place of strength. She does so with unflinching honesty, lighthearted compassion, and a healthy dose of trauma informed education.Because children in the arts are especially vulnerable and personal boundaries are blurred by antiquated adages like "you must suffer for your art," it's of the utmost importance that those around them create safe spaces for our young artists to grow and learn. Laura shares her story in hopes that nothing like what happened at CTC will ever happen again.