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Killing Atlas, Gary Dee Penton

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Eleven years ago, I wrote a novel. It was called Combat Aircrew Seven. There had been nothing written about my obscure military profession up to that point, at least nothing I could find on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. I was a naval flight officer, mission commander on the P-3C Orion antisubmarine, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. It has since been replaced with the P-8 Poseidon which I employ in my novel, Killing Atlas.

A decade later, I read the pages of Combat Aircrew Seven (quickly scanning with my face turned partially away from the pages), and while there were certainly …

Babel Underground, Joyce Y. Butler

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Joyce Y. Butler, earned her Bachelor of Arts from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in English. Her short stories and poems have been published in Green Eggs and Hams, the literary and arts journal of Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She also writes inspirational essays which have been published on the online journal, Purpled Nail. She is currently in the process of compiling a book of inspirational essays. She has been employed as a Legal Assistant for 44 years.

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Sonogram In Medias Res, Carla E. Arellano

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In her compelling memoir, Carla E. Arellano addresses issues surrounding abortion and the numerous influences that lead women in the Mexican-American culture to make this choice. Sonogram in Medias Res is a collection of creative nonfiction stories that are personal reflections. These stories come together to show the ebb and flow of memory, culture, and the personal narrative.

My First Moon, Guadalupe Garcí­A Mccall

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In his book, The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall states that a "Story's role in human life extends far beyond conventional novels or films. Story, and a variety of storylike activities, dominates human life" (8). This quote illustrates how important writing and writers are in our society. This idea resonates with my deeply felt need to create meaningful work, work that will make its way into the fabric of our social structure, work that will improve and elevate life for humanity and the world our children will inherit.

One thing that is always of utmost concern to me as a writer …

Del Otro Lado… Y Más Allá Colección De Crónicas, Oscar Iván Zapata García

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Del otro lado... y más allá. Colección de crónicas está compuesta por 13 crónicas o textos de no-ficción que a su vez se agrupan en dos partes. La Primera Parte (Del otro lado. Crónicas Fronterizas) está compuesta por 7 crónicas donde se relata la experiencia fronteriza (Estados Unidos-México) en sus dimensiones políticas y sociales desde la perspectiva de un chilango. Para ello hago uso de las técnicas de la crónica, en su acepción de periodismo narrativo y literatura de no-ficción, y del humor y la ironía del altiplano mexicano. La pretensión es hacer agudas y relevantes observaciones geográficas y sociales …

Her, Alessandra Narvaez-Varela

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Arak And Other Stories, Fatima Sausan Masoud

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Set in the West Bank, Arak and Other Stories follows the lives of members of the Al-Hakim family. Through the stories, Palestinian-American, Layla Al-Hakim, uncovers long buried family secrets and discovers deep connections to her Palestinian cousins.

The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre

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In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed “Or,” a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a “consciousness in virtual space.” Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlando’s personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the host’s own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlando’s brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …

The Art Collector, Cesar Vladimir Ruiz Ledesma

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La tesis The Art Collector es un libro de cuentos y no, simplemente, un libro de relatos. Por ello, se repiten personajes, escenarios y poética en todas las historias, de modo que están conectadas mutuamente. El detonante de la escritura es el contraste de lugares en un único protagonista, Alonso Quijano, escritor peruano que viaja y vive en Texas, México, New Jersey, New York y Lima.

Burning Signs Of Blue, John Veldt

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I am a beginning poet, and these are my beginning poems. Indeed, I am not Lorca. However, I do believe that his spirit of duende is visible in my work.There is the visible anguish of desire in these poems (just to name a few): the desire to receive a father's love, the desire to be the human animal, the desire to find truth, and a parent's desire to protect her children. It is a longing, a melancholic desire, tinged and/or consumed with the knowledge of death and loss. There is the desire for lost lovers and lost children, the desire …