Sally LaChance leads a double life. By day, she works as a park ranger in a midsized Missouri town. At night, she acts as emcee for the local roller derby team, the Boonslick Bombers, at the Empire Roller Rink. Sally loses her temper one day and pulls a gun on a group of polluters in Karst Park. Her boyfriend captures the moment on film and posts the footage to YouTube, putting Sally's job, her relationships, and her life at risk.
Offers Moon City Review's annual examination of the best in contemporary literature. Today's best writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations of works not originally penned in English. Contributors to this 2014 edition Craig Albin, Roy Bentley, Vanessa Blakeslee, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, George Looney, Richard Newman, Phoebe Reeves, Amber Sparks, Matthew Vollmer, and Gabriel Welsch.
As the sequel to Morkan's Quarry, The Teeth of the Souls tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching. Grounded in historical research and spanning Missouri's reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains into the fabric of the Ozarks.
For most of my life I had been in the grips of deep sleep, unaware of what was taking place around me and totally unaware of what was on the other side of the door. I was fearfully stuck between conscious and unconscious, but the strange part about it was that no one seemed to notice. I was going about my business running to and from like everyone else, but mindless of what I was doing and mindless of what I was missing. But then, something un...
The twenty stories in this collection introduce an unusual hodgpodge of everyman--children, men, and women who inhabit different eras and countries, all seeking deliverance.
This is a pagan tome of poetry and prose designed for rituals, festivals and celebrations. Working with deities, Romany has chronicled invocations and evocations for many Gods and Goddesses, and created clear and crafty quarter calls, circle castings, celebratory prose and meditations. Ritual is broken into its component parts allowing for easy reference and personal adaptation, and the additional correspondences information benefits the creat...
The editors of Moon City Press present another anthology of the best in contemporary literature. Established writers and new voices have both contributed short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations to make up this annual edition.