the Last Last Fight
​by Sally K Lehman

It’s March 1975 in rural Oregon, and Sammi Hollander is getting ready to run away. She’s planning on bringing her siblings and Mom, too. But first, she has to finish high school, hope a nearby college accepts her, and convince Mom — even when she’s being Psycho Bitch Mom — to leave their doublewide life behind. Most of all, Sammi hopes her abusive father doesn’t come home.
Speak of the Devil.

Momentary Illumination of objects in motion

Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion by Jason Arias unflinchingly peers into the places we turn away from and shows us it’s not always as neat or as clean as we’d like to imagine. Sometimes, it’s messy as hell.

Cul-de-sac
Agonistes

John Calvin Hughes has a propensity to say it plain. His take on the suburban experience
​and the ethos of "happy" and "ideal" rarely withstand his straightforward telling of the truth.
Twenty-one poems.

Diamonds
​and Moths

This book of short stories combines magical thinking, irony, and mystery: Diamonds and Moths by Steve Wechselblatt.

Licking Flames

Deftly written essays of the humorous and risque life of a Pacific Northwesterner, Diana Kirk of Astoria, Oregon.
Adult/Memoir/Humor

The Gulf of Folly

Poems influenced by the work of Wlm. Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and the classic, Moby Dick.

In the Fat

Coming of age has never been so rough. The story of Skyler Canter Reems, 13 and institutionalized in The Fat. 

the book of Ulie

Two storybook characters -- a racy college student and a precocious pre-teen -- tell intertwining stories of yearnings to find connection.