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Ballroom Author: Alice Simpson Music beckons like a siren’s call, and you respond.  That feeling of moving to the rhythm and believing, somehow, that the song is meant for you.” Ballroom“ Through the voices of the men and women who dance inside her prose, Simpson captures the entity of a life lived only in dreams and its polarity, the actual life that overcomes the sorrow of imagination. Redemptive, passionate and mesmerizing, Ballroom shuttles the passion, pain and erotic joy of the dance ... continue reading...

The Art of Crash Landing Author: Melissa DeCarlo It’s a dead end this time for Mattie Wallace.  Her mother, a raging alcoholic, is dead, and Mattie is terrified that her life will follow her mother’s horrid example.  She has no money and is pregnant; of course, the dad is a deadbeat who has left like the scent of a rotten pile of garbage.  On top of everything else, Mattie’s grandmother has died, the grandmother her own mother refused to talk about.  And worst of the worst, Mattie has ... continue reading...

The Beautiful Bureaucrat Author: Helen Phillips   Josephine lives in an isolated cube of an office and types numbers and names into The Database.  The time might be present, or the future.  She is thrilled to get the job, as she and her husband have been unemployed.  Her husband Joseph gets a job also but neither share where they are working or what they are doing. It’s a random secret.  And then Joseph starts disappearing every once in a while in the evening without telling Josephine ... continue reading...