Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, pizza delivery boy, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside
Praise for Fears of Your Life:“Written in a lively, lucid, meticulous hand…reminiscent of early Matt Groening, not only in spirit and subject matter, but in style.”—The San Francisco Bay GuardianHave
Praise for Fears of Your Life:“Written in a lively, lucid, meticulous hand…reminiscent of early Matt Groening, not only in spirit and subject matter, but in style.”—The San Fr
45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver's seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the
Winner of the Rebecca Smith Award for Fine ArtIn this uniquely beautiful wordless graphic novel, a working-class family struggles to make ends meet and raise their children in a relentless world of ec
Beyond Definition confronts questions of sexuality and identity in a collection of dynamic work by established and emerging writers from the San Francisco Bay Area. Urgent and significant issues are e
Whether dissecting his family of origin (twentynothing,” 1977,” Where the Self Divides”) or penning unusual love poems (Following Her to Sleep,” Trust,”) McDaniel’s unparalleled ability to wield a mig
The author explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, a poet, and a lover, satirizing society's strictures and his own life experiences in stream-of-consciousness poems that deal with race, desire,
Why should kids have all the fun? Now grown-ups can have a blast coloring in Devil Babe's luscious lips and tantalizing body parts, playing connect-the-dots to discover naughty pictures, dressing up t
Handy advice on how to survive, thrive, and be spectacular. These experiential, very real commentaries from today’s underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from “Door Eti
In her first full-length collection of poems, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accu
When Alan Schultz met David Dictor as a freshman at the University of Tampa in 1973, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. After some highly questionable youthful hijinks, they would meet up
In an urban framework of love and sex and betrayal, these sizzling poems and scorching stories explore the inexplicable politics of human relationships while breaking open the boundaries of the heart'
