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And No Net Ensnares Me by
Pre-release—available November 1, 2023. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 48,890. Language: English. Published by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The characters in And No Net Ensnares Me suffer the many predations of Israeli occupation: They’re displaced, imprisoned, held in administrative detention, tortured, besieged and fragmented by walls, barriers and military checkpoints. Yet not all Palestinians are in solidarity against these practices. Some find it more profitable to cooperate. Who is friend, and who is foe?
Conch Pearl by
Pre-release—available October 10, 2023. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 90,020. Language: English. Published by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The Hobie skips waves and shreds seaweed, racing ahead of the storm. Dede, flattened on the mesh trampoline, grips its laces. If she lets go now, rolls off the side and into the crazed sea, could she make it to shore? She swam 400 meters at the Freeport Y once—but this? When she dares to lift her head and angle her eyes left, the island melts into a darkening sky. Too far, too rough to try.
The End of Good Intentions by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 109,810. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In The End of Good Intentions, David Borofka examines the gap between desire and emptiness, conviction and extremism, those who believe absolutely in the certitude of their perspective and those who live on the outer margins of doubt and uncertainty.
Beloved Brother, Beloved Sister: Poems for Palestine by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 19,940. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
These poems celebrate my friendships with Palestinians (and a few others) from Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere, my desire to honor their beautiful hearts and deep suffering, and to express my gratitude for the love they have shown me, and the wisdom they have shared with me.
(laughter) by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 9,730. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Combining lyricism and narrative poetry, (laughter) touches the heart of the heart — which the light of our ordinary days tries — with its exhausted efforts in broken down cars and jobless afternoons — to penetrate, and that finally overcomes the nameless loss,  desire and confusion that dogs so many of our hours turning into night.
Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality & Mortality by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 9,050. Language: English. Published: July 7, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
"Yahia Lababidi's work is characterized by a contemplative tone in line with Rumi, whom he often quotes. Lababidi is a Muslim voice for peace, celebrating the wisdom in ancient traditions and pointing out the ridiculous in the rush and cynicism of contemporary life." -Plough magazine
The Art of Her Life by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 78,800. Language: English. Published: June 6, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
At nine, on her first visit to a museum, Emily fell in love with Breakfast, a painting by Henri Matisse. Now a single mother, she can barely find time for her daughters, or for Mark, the man she loves. Matisse’s words and paintings permeate her days, and, on a card of the painting she loves, she sees something new. The Art of Her Life shows the power of art to transform an ordinary life.
Town and Gown by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 98,760. Language: English. Published: May 15, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Two girls grow up in the same rural college town where class and family expectations guide them onto predictable paths: marriage for one and college for the other. However, Wanda and Callie defy the expectations and make other choices, ones with serious consequences. What does it cost a young woman to determine her path in life?
Vintage Vinyl Playlist by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 147,320. Language: English. Published: May 12, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Music abides as an elemental force in the lives and situations chronicled in each of these seventeen stories and a concluding novella. What all the characters share is a desire to follow Emerson's advice to "make much of your own place."
A World Where Many Worlds Fit by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 7,260. Language: English. Published: May 5, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Written from street barricades and train rides under Andean stars, this book celebrates a world where many worlds fit. Journalist Benjamin Dangl has reported on revolutions and social justice movements around the globe. His collection of photography and writing depicts street scenes, cityscapes, and night jungles from the margins of his reporting, evoking the vastness of our world of many worlds.
Miniature Cities by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 15,020. Language: English. Published: April 18, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » European poetry » Italian
Miniature Cities is panoramic view of Alessio Brandolini's poetry, made of vast landscapes and haunting imagery, where the stark Roman countryside becomes the objective correlative for the mystery of human existence and interaction. In this dual language edition, Brandolini’s poems are presented on alternating pages with English translations by Giorgio Mobili.
In the Place Where We Thought We Stood by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 32,630. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In the Place Where We Thought We Stood tells the contemporary tale of a French-American translator traveling by train from Paris to Barcelona. Haunted by his wife's suicide, and by his failure to complete his translation of the anguished, post-war correspondence between the writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, he struggles numbly to make sense of the moment, the day.
The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 12,780. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
The capricious world of relationships is something everyone has navigated, often wishing for a magic spell to release them from its hold. In The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers, Christine Butterworth-McDermott delves into these dark partnerings, using the symbolism of the natural world, particularly plants and their taxonomy, as metaphor.
Self Storage and The Occupant by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 31,160. Language: English. Published: March 13, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Plays » American / African American
SELF STORAGE is an absurd, four-character comedy in one 90-minute act. In THE OCCUPANT, a four-character, one-act play, JAMES has lost his employment as an adjunct professor of English after austerity measures have forced education cutbacks, leading to the loss of his house to foreclosure and subsequent auction
The Varieties of Jewish Experience by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 39,190. Language: English. Published: March 3, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
The Varieties of Jewish Experience is a collection of seventeen stories — containing golems, nuns, rabbis, giant shrimps and Woody Allen— a novella about the trials of a writer in love with a woman who wants him to finish a novel by her late husband, and a hilarious Yiddish glossary.
The Repetition of Exceptional Weeks by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 11,550. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2023 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
The Repetition of Exceptional Weeks is a soundtrack for Anyways, made with queer friends, a dog, and some housemates in a communal house during a pandemic.
Confession from a Jericho Jail: Second Edition by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 87,050. Language: English. Published: November 30, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Nonfiction » History » Middle East
When he refused military service in the West Bank, Stephen Langfur—an American-Israeli tour guide with a Ph. D. in Religion and Culture—was sent to a cell for wayward soldiers in Jericho. If Langfur’s confession is relevant today, it is because (as a reviewer put it) "the book is much more intimate—and much more intriguing and satisfying—than a mere political tract.
Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 147,490. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Essay » Literature
Fugitive Dreams is a personal documentary depicting the last half-century of the Palestinian experience through the life of Sameer, who finds his way to America from the “wrong” side of the border.
Asylum for Men and Dogs by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 84,550. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In life, there have always been people who make groveling to the strong and powerful their daily routine, transforming humiliation into a measurement for their success. They will be the strong and the powerful of tomorrow. They are stronger than fawning and cringing, taller than humiliation. They do not give in.
Auras by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 58,810. Language: English. Published: September 6, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
The twelve stories that make up Auras span time from the 1940’s to the present day, They cover ground from New England to the Midwest to the South. But in another respect, all of these stories live in the same place, asking a different version of the same question: Is it possible to fix broken things?
Midstream by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,080. Language: English. Published: August 23, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
It’s 1974, and America is restless, with the Vietnam War winding to a close, and feminists marching in the streets. Polly Wainwright respects the protesters’ demands for equal pay, but now nearing middle age, won’t risk her security. Her job, picture editor at a prestigious publisher, is too good to lose. Polly is comfortable with her life. Still, she’d once dreamed of making documentary films.
Silent Acts of Public Indiscretion by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 11,550. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Fierce, haunted, urgent, these are poems that could only have been written in the 21st Century, Catastrophe is already around us and more may lie ahead, but here are offerings of stars, coffee, memories, paintings, and words that stubbornly keep dancing on the edge. —Joyce Johnson
Whatever Befalls: Poems from Dietenbronn Neurological Clinic by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 6,800. Language: English. Published: June 27, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » European poetry » German
Johannes Hösle (1929-2017) wrote these poems in 1977, during a stay in the specialist clinic for neurology in Dietenbronn, Germany.   He selected thirty-one poems for the collection, one for each day he spent at the clinic. This is a dual language German/English edition. The collection was published in 2019 as a German/Italian dual language edition: Album aus Dietenbronn: Album da Dietenbronn.
The Showcase by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 72,460. Language: English. Published: May 24, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Most of my life has become wrapped up in stories, and I sometimes get a case of vertigo when I’m put on the spot and have to tell the unvarnished truth. The Showcase aspires to tell the truth about a particular time and place—Philadelphia in the 1980s—by unraveling the intimate lives of ordinary individuals coming of age in the decade when America was transformed into a less hopeful place.
Blind Insights into the Writing Process by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 11,540. Language: English. Published: March 22, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Oedipus’s vision starts blind. A book on writing suggesting anything else is imposed, a handbook of techniques unlike these epigrams and prose poems that are beyond the writer, just as the creative process is, if they are honest, beyond anyone. Blind Insights is a book of sightings outside the terrestrial landscape of everyday vision that as rich as it is often gets in the way of true access.
How They Became Birds by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 100,470. Language: English. Published: March 1, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
How They Became Birds collects three short novels about growing up. In all three stories memory, longing, and violence intersect to create unusual and honest portraits of youth in extremis.
Sugaring Down by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 123,910. Language: English. Published: February 8, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Sugaring Down burrows below the surface of sixties counterculture and the New Left to explore the contradictions and passions that lead to the implosion of the protagonists’ dreams, and their turns down two very different paths.
The Door-Man by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 118,090. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In 1917, during reservoir construction in Gilboa NY, a young paleontologist, Miss Winifred Goldring, identified fossils from an ancient forest. A mix of fact and fiction, The Door-Man follows three generations of families who share a deep wound from Gilboa's last days. The story is told by Winifred's grandson, a disaffected NYC doorman working near the Central Park Reservoir in 1993.
Geographies of the Heart by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 82,410. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Sarah Macmillan always puts her family first, but as she ages, she can’t quite stretch her arms wide enough to hold on to everyone: her career-minded and inattentive younger sister, Glennie; their grandparents, who are slowly fading; or the late-in-life pregnancy Sarah desperately wanted. But it’s her tumultuous relationship with Glennie that gives Sarah the greatest worry.
The Sock in Karl Kerstensen's Shoe by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 48,280. Language: English. Published: January 14, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary
The characters of all these 22 stories are different, but they all have one thing in common - a sock in the shoe. The stories are told in the voice of the small but great person, the voice of the lost person, the voice of the emigrant, the homeless, the traveler, or the voice of the businessman, who feels something strange rubbing the tip of his toe....
The Least of It by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 30,620. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Spanning a single day in Mexico City, The Least of It is a story of jealousy and deception, of innocence and complicity, of the role of one man in the betrayal and destruction of another.
Bad Days on the Batsto by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 38,460. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
These are normal lives. Children swallow teeth. Husbands masturbate into toilets. A Black man does field training with a white militia in the Pine Barrens. People protest the carceral system and loathe their siblings all the while. Teenagers sealcoat suburban driveways. Salt therapy sessions culminate in paranoid mental breakdowns. This is normal. This is how we live.
Owmapow Rides Again by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 31,700. Language: English. Published: January 2, 2022 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Dr. Owen Brownstone, aka Owmapow, is a good-hearted fellow, a biology professor, a rescuer of oceanic fauna, a devoted brother, a teacher of science writing, and a wannabe fictioneer. Unfortunately, he is also an individual who is almost always disadvantaged by the courses of action in which he or his associates engage. As such, Owmapow is all of us.
Into This Wild Abyss by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 155,190. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Flights of fancy offer Bonbon, a troubled teenager, an escape from the domestic oppression of her daily existence and an entrance into a universe of make-believe, which eventually turns nightmarish. Is she daydreaming, or is this real? A new interpretation of "there's no place like home," is this story, at once epic and intimate, a surreal political fable in the guise of a Grimm fairytale?
Blown Away/Soffiati via by & (translator)
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 6,470. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » European poetry » Italian, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Blown Away is a collection of ethereal declarations and fragmented utterances echoing in the chambers of the skull and the depths of the belly. vito m. bonito’s collection, first published in Italian and now translated into English by Allison Grimaldi Donahue.
Sunken Boulevards by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 5,730. Language: English. Published: September 22, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
An intense exploration of cultural displacement, Sunken Boulevards evokes an ebullient dreamscape where here and there, past and now, self and other collide within the poignant synchronicity of memory and longing.
The Poetry of Awakening: An Anthology of Spiritual Chinese Poetry by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 12,480. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » Ancient Poetry
…An anthology of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty, including poems from the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, that explore the experience of spiritual awakening.
Out of Place by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 94,590. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
A research institute in the Mojave Desert falls under suspicion in the aftermath of 9/11. With skeptical eye and fearless ear to the ground, Diane Lefer explores the human cost of the security state. In a novel spanning cultures and continents, an international cast of richly imagined characters have in common an unease that may well be true of most of us: feeling–or being seen as–out of place.
Arrivals and Departures by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 16,930. Language: English. Published: August 17, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Eight years after poet Philip Ramp left America for Greece, he returned for a visit. Everything looked different to him, in a way that he knew he wouldn’t have seen if he had been living there. Arrivals and Departures is based on that experience, with arriving and departing switching roles in the poems, depending on mood and place.
How Hamisu Survived Bad Kidneys and a Bad Son-in-Law: Stories from Nigeria by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 46,310. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The daughter of a slain U.S. reporter travels to war-torn Syria to shoot a documentary on her father’s last days. A boy still reeling from the aftershocks of a genocide recovers in time to help his tribe survive yet another wave of attack. These and many more stories, set in third-world countries where the stress levels are high will take you on revelatory journeys into human character.
Once Was Lost by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 41,100. Language: English. Published: June 18, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
Once Was Lost reflects Dante's Paradiso in finding the terminus of a journey through the moral universe. It is set on a North Atlantic Beach at sunrise, eating a breakfast of fried clams among the many spirits, living and dead, famous and obscure, human and other, animate and inanimate, who have blessed our lives.
Tramping Solo by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 10,550. Language: English. Published: June 15, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Fred Rosenblum is not going to let us off easy. He’s the anti-romantic — a blue-collar poet and bus driver’s son with an affinity for the Beats’ drug-induced poetic style. He saw combat in Vietnam, returned home and took to the road, destined for Alaska — Tom Sexton, former Poet Laureate of Alaska whose latest collection is entitled Cummiskey Alley
Permeable Boundaries by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 94,280. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
In these stories, the protagonists find themselves living outside cultural mores and expectations as they confront the central questions of their lives. In doing so, they undergo a range of moral and psychological transformations. The search for a home often preoccupies them, whether this home is a true place or a place within.
The Violet Needle: Stories from Iran by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 36,850. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
“How many days of your life so far have spent thinking about impossible matters:? Maybe it is an impossible matter — thinking about impossible matters, or that the earth — with no shrinking — passes through the eye of a needle — without the needle dilating. Or let’s think about someone who is walking while he is standing.”
Desert Memory by & (translator)
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 5,890. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » Latin American Poetry, Poetry » Female authors
Winner of the Efráin Huerta National Poetry Prize, Desert Memory is a distillation of memories and emotions, images and experiences transformed into poetry. Exploring and evoking the deserts of Chihuahua, where she was born, Jeannette L. Clariond uses a mix of personal and Aztec mythology to recreate and relive her childhood, until memory itself is emptied.
A Different Kind of War: Uneasy Encounters in Mexico and Central America by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 83,470. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Essay » Political
Families fleeing the violence of Honduras. Mexican reporters covering gang conflict in Juarez. Children living off the refuse of a landfill. Informed by grief and anger and told in varied and distinctive voices, A Different Kind of War offers a sensitive exploration of men and women connected by courage, resilience, and the need for human connection.
Trotsky’s Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays about Literature by &
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 99,240. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Essay » Literature
Initially conceived of as a literary correspondence between them, authors George Ovitt and Peter Nash set out to chronicle their reading experiences in a series of short essays about the literature they love. Ultimately, in just over five years, they wrote more than 350 such essays, their favorite of which they’ve assembled in this collection.
Drinking the River by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 13,040. Language: English. Published: March 16, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Nature
There is elemental life in these poems, intimate moments when it seems our remove from the natural world — fatal to it — can be bridged. It is the poetry of that connection in daily life and the imagination. The great rivers flood, a blue wasp sails elegantly through the house. Suddenly a copperhead lies snake-thick across the hiker’s trail.
The Hands of Pianists by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 80,040. Language: English. Published: March 4, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The Hands of Pianists' narrator is a neurotic freelance writer who aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. His investigations centre on the violent deaths at 31 of three great pianists, his detective work taking him from Melbourne to Geelong and Sydney, to the south of France, London, Sussex and the Czech Republic.
The Saint I Ain’t by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 11,740. Language: English. Published: February 9, 2021 by Fomite. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston’s stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of oppressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
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