Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself—before the government uses them both for human experimentation. The post Definition appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s his ex-girlfriend, Micah, and she needs a ride home from Florida, almost ten hours away. On a rollicking midnight ride from Tennessee to Daytona Beach and back, Jamie turns over his relationship with Micah, his friends, and even God, as he tries to do the right thing and save her. One last time. The post The Trouble with Sweetheartz appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage is a stunning anthology of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Set in New England, Los Angeles, Seattle; across oceans in Israel, Norway, Spain; in synagogues of youth, forests, and seder tables, its stories, like manna in the desert of our ancestors, sustain body and soul. The post Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters Franson-Thiel weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity. The post Bone Valley Hymnal appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems both narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multilayered, Hollands explores what it was like to grow up gay in the late twentieth century, to deal with grief, and to create a family of one’s own. The post Mangrove appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt these poems, while desire and love and the sweetness of simple mornings triumph. The post Make a Wish appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s. The post Twang appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
In Gizzards & Hearts, characters teeter on the edge of collapse, clinging to hope in a crumbling world. From a mother in isolation to boys chasing time travel, each story explores desperate acts, fleeting grace, and the fragile struggle to see ourselves—and each other—for who we truly are. The post Gizzards & Hearts: Stories appeared first on ELJ Editions.| ELJ Editions
Magical Objects is a weirdo collection of flash and short fiction drawing from fabulism and the magical power of metaphor. It's genre-bendy, queer, dark, whimsical, and ridiculous. It is a fairy tale of growing up with books and fairy tales. It is about words, identity, and broken, smart-assy girls learning how to draw strength from their scars.| ELJ Editions
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Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie powerfully weave the seemingly incongruent into deeply moving and incredibly inspiring tapestries of meaning.| ELJ Editions
