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Jarret Richard Devlin Middleton

Fiction  ǀ March 2010
US$11.95 ǀ CAN$14.95

"Eerly calls back to centuries of Irish literary tradition, from the aisling (a patriotic lyric poem from the 17th century with dozens of bizarre constraints) to James Joyce's giddy molestation of language." Paul Constant, The Stranger


As the Irish-American poet Dallin lays dying, he recalls the surreal geography and traumatic events that lead him to the end.  An absence in a wind-beaten house suggests a past but somehow still-looming tragedy; vacancy fills a ghostly barroom and the campus of a condemned university; city streets and desolated forests are populated by no one except the formulations of Dallin’s own mind.  The ailed poet and his beautifully haunting wife Aìsling flee an obscure political persecution that culminates in her planned murder.  The impact of her death afflicts Dallin in ways he cannot comprehend and spirals him into his meeting with the mythic celestial escort, An Dantomine Eerly.

 

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13 Fugues (stories)
Jennifer Natalya Fink

Fiction ǀ Forthcoming May 2011

◊ Georgetown Review Fiction Award, Winner for “World Records”from 13 FUGUES ◊ Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award, Finalist for “Fabrications” from 13 FUGUES ◊ Two Girls review Experimental Novel Award, Finalist for 13 FUGUES and other stories ◊ Writer’s Digest Fiction Award, Second Place Winner for “Vertebrae” from 13 FUGUES ◊ Story Magazine Naked Fiction Contest, Second Place Winner for “Spit Bugs” from 13 FUGUES ◊ Story Magazine Short Short Fiction Contest, Second Place Winner for “Slipping” from 13 FUGUES

This collection is a series of thirteen interrelated stories narrated by Tanya Irene Shwartz, a 30-year-old Jewish-American woman.  Each story explores Tanya’s erotic relationship to her sister, Jewish law, 1970s American pop culture, older men, and younger women. Using the dissonant, repetitive structure of the musical and psychological fugue, these stories retrieve the rhythm, passion, and confusion of adolescence. Each story crystallizes around a moment of transformation, transgression and terror. And to each of these moments, the story adds a grace note: that almost-sound just before a chord that limns it with the divine.

Jennifer is the author of three novels: BURN and V (Suspect Thoughts Press) and most recently, THE MIKVAH QUEEN (Rebel Satori Press 2010), which won the Dana Award for the Novel. She is the founder and Gorilla-in-Chief of The Gorilla Press, an organization that promotes youth literacy through bookmaking. She is an assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. She lives in DC with her partner and daughter.

Read an excerpt from Jen's upcoming novel The Mikvah Queen (Rebel Satori Press, 2010) in Edition 1 of The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com



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Elynia and Other Stories
David Belczyk

Fiction ǀ Forthcoming Spring 2011

Elynia and Other Stories is a lyrically-charged debut that dissects the moments that make up the lives of its interrelated characters.  The title story examines four separate generations of nameless characters whose varied struggles unfold in a kaleidoscope of human need. An immigrant shoe-man works away his life in a dying town, witnessing his son wrongly arrested by a man whose shoes he regularly shines.  And that son watches his friend betray the memory of a departed mother by stealing her now-sacred makeup for a drunken joke.  That friend then marries a waitress who secretly loves another man who is perpetually stuck atoning for his past by meticulously refurbishing a house.  The atoner was once a painter whose works were rejected by his one love, the granddaughter of the woman who boards the hapless shoe-man after a fire takes everything from him.  Being the only one named, Elynia paradoxically emerges as the greater obscurity that envelopes the nameless yet distinguished ensemble. The remaining stories continue as portraits of human passion and delicate humility illumined by a poetical, Faulknerian light.

David Belczyk is an attorney and engineer that has published two volumes of poetry.  He resides in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information about his work, or to purchase his books, please visit davidbelczyk.com.