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THE WRITING DISORDER ANTHOLOGY Volume II This book collects most of the fiction, poetry, and nonfiction work published on our site during 2011. A great selection of work from some very talented writers. Don't miss out.	WHERE YOU ARE by Michael Burns “I can’t take it anymore. Love, L” writes Paul Embry’s wife of less than a year on the envelope of an electric bill. Thus begins the late summer and fall of Paul’s discontent as he struggles to come to grips with his feelings that this act of his young wife generates.
RESETTING THE ARMAGEDDON CLOCK by Matt Thomas In a bid to impress a woman, a scientist unwittingly pushes the world to the brink of destruction when he sets the Armageddon clock at one-minute to midnight. A short story.	THE PHYSICS OF IMAGINARY OBJECTS by Tina May Hall This enigmatic collection by Hall comprises curious musings on the convergence of the natural and human worlds. Many of these selections have quirky titles that deliver atmospheric, dreamlike stories sure to fascinate. —Publishers Weekly
CATCH HER IN THE RYE by Wodke Hawkinson Catch Her in the Rye offers a cross-genre reading experience with its variety of tales, each different in tone and subject matter, and all entertaining.	MAYOR OF THE ROSES by Marianne Villanueva “Marianne Villanueva is a gifted story-teller with an unflinching eye. Her elegant stories take us on a powerful journey from the harsh realities of life in the Philippines to another kind of harsh reality in urban America.” —Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dream Jungle
WAR OF THE CRAZIES by John Oliver Hodges A young Florida woman joins a commune in upstate New York, and finds herself smack dab in the middle of a host of crazies.	THE BLUNDER by Joe Kilgore Within every smart man, a stupid one lies in wait. An aging advertising man loses his perspective when an insensitive boss, years his junior, reassigns his major account. Embarking on a monumental bender, he sets in motion a particularly ill-conceived revenge that triggers an inexorable chain of life-changing events.
THE VOTING BOOTH AFTER DARK by Vanessa Libertad Garcia A group of gay & lesbian Latino club kids plunge deep into the agonizing lows of anxiety and addiction throughout the 2008 presidential elections.	GINSENG AND OTHER TALES FROM MANILA by Marianne Villanueva Villanueva's debut collection of probing, dreamlike tales about the Philippines during Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship provides a haunting picture of the island's landscape and an intriguing glimpse into the minds and hearts of its people.
BUDDHA BOX by Gretchn Mattox "...Zen-supple, hungrily-burning collection of poems." —Carol Muske-Dukes "As subversive in its simplicity as any truly American Buddhism, or as any truly feminine anything..." —Gail Wronsky Winner of the 2003 Green Rose Prize	THE SLEEP HOTEL by Amy Newlove Schroeder The harsh lines and sentence fragments in Schroeder's hard-to-forget debut create collisions between the libidinal and the numinous: Struggling to get out/ from under the hood of the world, the poet compares her unsatisfied desire to Sailboats asleep in their slips, declaring I love you the way the ground loves the flame. Those phrases may begin to show the seriousness with which these taut poems take their goals: compressed yet raw, alert to the weights of words yet focused on emotion so strong it bends language all out of shape.
WE GROW OLD by Yu-Han Chao Yu-Han Chao writes with delicacy and power. Her poems speak on many levels about life, relationships and personal nightmares. Her work flows from a mix of traditional Chinese culture, contemporary Taiwan and post-modern America. The resulting poems contain beauty and often wisdom. Many are worth reading over and over again. —Joe Farley	THERE ARE SEVEN NOTES by Sudha Balagopal Can music really communicate emotions better than words? Is a person born with music embedded in his DNA? Could two souls bound by music ever find a connection outside of it? The seven stories in There are Seven Notes reveal the pervasiveness of classical music in Indian culture: an attempt once again to fathom the distance between life and art.
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