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In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us.

"A high school math teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother.

"Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can't help but unravel back to t

"Seen Reading is the exciting debut collection of microfictions from Canada's pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson.

"These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems.

"""In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core."" paulo da costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of

"Are You Ready to Be Lucky? If so, meet Roslyn, a spirited divorc'e eager for new beginnings. Meet Duncan, a British conman with a penchant for collecting ex-wives.

This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea and Kenya, Italy and Iran. They look and think differently.

The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in Yiddish.

A quirky collection of stories about teens in lust and in love.

Far from the Tuscan Sun… is Saving Rome. Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, knows just how far.

She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced.