Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary Aurelie Sheehan’s Once in
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeStories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves
A dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal Girl Zoo is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short sto
Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s MidwestThe Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvel
A fiction of the city as a chorus of voices, an entity that is both one and many Marream Krollos’s Big City is a structurally innovative work of prose composed of vignettes, verse, dialog
Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own. On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeA grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.The Making S
A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing.TOKYO is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction PrizeAn unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence—love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty&
An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America. It’s 2006, and a cloud of darkness seems to have
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death. When life dwindles to its ir
Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria whi
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old ag
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic sto
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by
In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person.Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his
Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thing
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize In Natural Wonders, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan’s lecture seri
Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic—The Professor. While The Profess
The landscape of this novel in storiesuJoseph Cardinale's first book-length work of fictionuis as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. Whether any person is the same from one moment to the n
"To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hiloriously inventive hollows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself,
Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel—through time, space, narrat
A collection of stories that limn the dangers of domesticity In Lynn K. Kilpatrick’s In the House, anything can happen. A collection of shorts—lists, character sketches, directions, scripts, and ins
A fictional meditation on time and experience—part journal, part meditation, part dreamscape In language that is frank and uncompromising, Rob Stephenson’s debut novel, Passes Through, moves forward
A fable-like tale of a small community afflicted by a mysterious plague Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly
The River Gods is a novel in fragments, a mix of fact and fiction, in which various inhabitants of what is now Northampton, Massachusetts, from the eleventh century through the 1990s, speak of their
The Illustrated Version of Things is the tale of a young woman, raised in foster homes, juvenile halls, and a mental hospital, on a quest to reunite her disparate family and track down her missing mot
M - works in a dead-end job for the insurance and meager income. He's in a trough, and asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L - is a college dropout and
Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade. Together they contest the false present of the Bush years, contin
The Bruise is a prize-winning novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M- deals with the r
La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the
Set on the Blackfeet Reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of
This collection - derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility - contains passionate and subversive acts of language, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the
This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in p
