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Tim Kirk writes and edits a collection of stories set in a world where "The Feral Boy Who Lives in Griffith Park" exists. The largest urban park in the nation, dwarfing New York's Central Park by five to one, is the fertile ground where new myths and legends grow. A murderous Western Swing guitarist, a golf caddie turned tabloid writer, a pair of tweakers at their first parent support group, a suicidal father taking his last hike, and other st...

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The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, the anthology features Amber Sparks serving as final judge.

34 conversations with self-reliant, self-employed, and otherwise self-motivated musicians, technicians, and artists. "Self Empunishment" by Brian Walsby, beautifully illustrated by the author and featuring an introduction by Bob Durkee, presents this series of interviews in one densely-packed, story-filled volume.

How much story can fit in 50 words? Hold Still Fast, a collection of 200 stories 50 words and under, explores how far the shortest fiction can travel with the fewest words possible.

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.

Garden Prayers: Summer" is the third collection of drawings made primarily at the Botanic Garden in Claremont. These are, as artist T.M. Givens states, "still based on the idea that they are prayers ... what about if I don't have enough good words to let you know what I believe or that I'm thinking ... can you understand that well enough?

Garden Prayers: Fall" is the fourth collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden) in Claremont and in Upland, California. As artist T.M. Givens states, "I think I've been producing a self-help book... you know, one that just comes alive or makes you come alive as you read it.

FOR LACK of DIAMOND YEARS is an idiosyncratic collection of short poems - most under 20 lines - where questions lead the way. The poems are a mixed set of free verse, unabashed counting forms like the Hay(na)ku and the Elfchen, and a very minimalist version of John Cage's mesostic form, along with a small number of poems based on colors, and a few that steal freely from traditional American songs. But at its heart, For Lack of Diamond Years is...

Football" by Don Skiles is a powerful character-driven tale using high school football as a framework in which to examine teenage life in Western Pennsylvania. This thoughtful story follows Larry Simmons through several life-changing events as 1957 looms on the horizon. Should he continue his athletic aspirations? Will he be inspired by more poetry? What does high school mean to him? And what is happening with Cameron Mitchell?

A science fiction novel set in a completely built up world where vertical values are prized while all horizontal tendencies are suspect. An illicit underground group is hoping to break through to the elusive outside but special agents of the IVT (Institute for Vertical Thinking) are hot on the trail.

Stevie Ludich stumbles upon a dry lakebed covered in writing that tells the story of a man who goes to a job interview with a weird corporation that seems to know an awful lot about the job candidates. As Stevie dictates the words into an old reel-to-reel, he can't help but wonder who wrote them, and why.And that's not the only thing going on in Cartago. The police chief is on the reluctant lookout for biblical signs, a young photographer/wait...

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The Best Microfiction series provides recognition for outstanding stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge.

Whistler's Mother's Son collects over 100 prose pieces of varying length and styles-from minimalism to satire to noir to children's tale to abstraction to surrealism. The cast of characters includes Hamlet, Gertrude Stein, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Mondrian, a man with two mustaches, and an eternally confused Peter Cherches.

Across The Street From The Ordinary is a collection of recent short fiction. The stories here move through a wide variety of settings, characters, narratives - all not quite conventional.

First published in 1991 comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, A Modern Way to Die, by Peter Wortsman, "predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely one of the cornerstones of the tradition, " (according to short form pioneer Pete Cherches).

A beautifully illustrated children's book exploring emotions, like love in all its complex wonder.

Fiction. The five sequences of LIFT YOUR RIGHT ARM are minimalist novels of sorts--thought- provoking, mostly deadpan prose that is often darkly humorous. From the stark relationship studies of "Bagatelles" and "Dirty Windows" to the wry observations of "Mr. Deadman" and "A Certain Clarence, " the stars of these pieces are Peter Cherches' unique takes on Everyman and Everywoman--dead or alive--navigating a world in which very little is what it...

David Allen takes an alphabetical tour through 26 uniquely entertaining aspects of Pomona, California with this delightful series of newspaper columns that first appeared in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. This 10th Anniversary edition, the first time in paperback, includes updates, commentary, and a new introduction by the author.