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In 1942, when she was 15 years old and a freshman at Garfield High School, Suma (Kato) Yagi and her family were forced to leave their home in Seattle. Executive Order 9066 authorized the mass removal of Japanese Americans from prescribed military zones, which included the West Coast. Suma and her family were sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, then to the Minidoka "Relocation Center" in Idaho. Her family returned to Seattle at the end of...

Jim Hawkins, runabout scamp, son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn, befriends a lodger named Billy Bones--a secretive sailor with a tantalizing history--and his life is forever changed.Soon, Jim is thrown into an adventure filled with pirates and magistrates, treasures and betrayals, sea voyages and battles. And through it all there is the specter and influence of a one-legged man, a man known to many as Long John Silver . . .

Social justice is an ideal. It's not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up black in south Seattle, journalist and essayist Marcus Harrison Green has a keen sense of exactly where and how things break down. From his own experience in the classroom and at the hands of police to his fierce dissection of the racism baked into m...

The world is at a loss for a way out. Parliamentarism and democracy are on the decline. Salvation is being sought in Fascism and other forms of "strong" government."Accessible, humorous, impassioned, and strangely relevant to our present day: here are collected some of the best short pieces by Emma Goldman, once famously regarded as "the most dangerous woman in America."To a world grown weary of financial inequality, endless wars, rampant inju...

While nowadays canine fever is all the rage in society and culture, there was a time that dog breeding and dogs shows were an elite and exclusive activity. Vertvolta Press is proud to present this 104 year-old catalog to a new generation of dog-lovers, full of delightfully arcane and obsessive descriptions and articles of what a breed 'should' be. But in our more enlightened era we know two things: 1) mutts are cool too, and 2) they're all goo...

MR. BAXTER. : Is molluscry the same as laziness? TOM. : No, not altogether. The lazy flow with the tide. The mollusc uses forces to resist pressure. It's amazing the amount of force a mollusc will use, to do nothing, when it would be so much easier to do something. It's no fool, you know, it's often the most artful creature, it wriggles and squirms, and even fights from the instinct not to advance. There are wonderful things about molluscry, t...

Shelley's mold-breaking and genre-creating Frankenstein hasn't been out of print since its first publication in 1818, though the story of science and dark melodrama has been reconfigured and reanimated many times over the years-in shadowy cinematic style in the 1930s, comedic, loveable boob-tube style in the 1960s, marvelously illustrated comic form in the 1970s, and even as a sweet treat children's cereal, evoking grunts and laughter, rather ...

Born of Earth parents. Raised on Mercury. Mercenary on Mars and Venus. Warrior of the Solar System. "For hours the hard-pressed beast had fled across the Martian desert with its dark rider. Now it was spent. It faltered and broke stride, and when the rider cursed and dug his heels into the scaly sides, the brute only turned its head and hissed at him. It stumbled on a few more paces into the lee of a sandhill, and there it stopped, crouching d...

Science fiction as a genre of literature was not differentiated in the minds of publishers from fantasy tales until nearly the middle of the Twentieth Century-and that sentence may inflame affectionados of the form but so be it. Is Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards a political fantasy or science fiction dealing with politics and economics? Good question. The answer is in the mind of the reader.In the mind of the author of Lord of the World br...

It put out its strong hand as it spoke, and clasped him gently by the arm."Rise! and walk with me!"And with this command, Ebenezer Scrooge is transported into the Past, where he will re-live the true nature of his youthful self. Before the night is through, miserly Scrooge will encounter two more Ghosts, of Present and Future, and experience a radical moral transformation. A Christmas Carol is a tale of bitterness and woe, of regret and redemp...

ORPHANEDat birth and left in the care of a harsh world!PROPELLEDfrom setting to setting, without a place to call home!CRIMINALIZEDthrough an unfortunate misunderstanding!OLIVER TWIST is the journey of a young parish child fighting to survive in the streets of London. Comedy and tragedy simultaneously guide you through these short, tumultuous years of Oliver's life, as Charles Dickens shines a critical light on the many aspects of Victorian soc...

Randi Jensen has brought us a fascinating and illustrative view of suicide from the inside. After 24 years struggling with her own suicidality she gives us an insightful explanation of how suicidal thought develops over time through endorphin-driven neural pathways. She does this in a way that compels us to turn each page to learn more, to experience more, to garner more hope and understanding. Moreover, Jensen gives the world a new way of hel...

SLIDESHOW is Eugene Babb's debut collection of poetry. In these spare, vivid poems, Babb explores the fragments and moments that make up a person's life. Bars, diners, street-corner fleeting encounters - the internal and external worlds interchange fluidly, searching for meaning in a word, a glance, a reflection.Also by Eugene M. Babb: Grit & Roses: stories

Seattle's most diverse community has a story to share with the world, a narrative of resistance, resilience, hope, tragedy, triumph, and passion. It's a story that can only be told by an area where Tagalog, and Tigrinya can flow as fluently from corner store door steps as English. Explore in this collection experiences as varied and unique as the people who grace its streets, but coalescing in one wide-ranging story: The People of South Seattl...

Enchantress of Venus" continues the planetary adventures of mercenary Eric John Stark, one of Leigh Brackett's most iconic creations. Eric John Stark arrives on Venus in search of his friend, Halvi. Approaching the town of Shuruun he is ambushed & falls overboard, and eventually makes his way to the town. But there is something mysterious happening in Shruun, and it seems the Lhari-the elite rulers & slavemasters of the town-are at the center ...

GRIMLY Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel-ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures-at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!Stark is taking a dying friend, Camar the Thief, back to his na...

Queen of the Martian Catacombs" marks the debut of one of Leigh Brackett's most iconic characters: Eric John Stark: orphan child raised on Mercury, who becomes a mercenary, fighting injustices across the solar system. Eric John Stark is hunted by Earth police in the Martian desert. Simon Ashton is with them and makes a deal with Stark to act as his agent in preventing a holy war. An unscrupulous ruler of a Martian Low-Canal city is partnering ...

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."Overcoming extreme poverty, racism, and other adversities Carter Godw...

The mustering-places for the regiment were appointed in New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory. The difficulty in organizing was not in selecting, but in rejecting men. Within a day or two after it was announced that we were to raise the regiment, we were literally deluged with applications from every quarter of the Union. Without the slightest trouble, so far as men went, we could have raised a brigade or even a division. The dif...

The geographic names on the Atlantic seaboard were in use for more than a century before the war of the American Revolution was fought.Just as that war was beginning the first Spanish caravels crept northward from New Spain toward the fabled Straits of Anian. After the war was ended the wild coasts along the Pacific were a lure for the explorer and the fur trader. Voyages of this kind increased, breeding disputes over sovereignty, which culmin...