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Prime Number Magazine, Editors’ Selections, Volume 1
edited by Clifford Garstang, Valerie Nieman, Tracy Crow
9 x 6 paperback, 200 pages
ISBN 978-1-935708-41-4
$17.95
Welcome to the first volume of Prime Number Magazine’s Editors’ Selections. In the first year of our free, quarterly online magazine, we published more than 60 pieces of fiction, poems by more than 60 poets, and nearly 20 essays. We loved them all, or we wouldn’t have published them. But there isn’t room for everything in a single book, so we began the excruciating process of choosing. We are pleased to present these Editors’ Selections, representing less than a quarter of the wonderful work from the magazine. We’re certain you’ll like what you read here and hope that you’ll be a frequent visitor to PrimeNumberMagazine.com
Poetry by Timothy Black, Erica Dawson, Ruth Foley, Rachel Hadas, James Harms, Lola Haskins, Emilie Lindeman, Sarah Lindsay, Robert Hill Long, Susan Laughter Meyers, William Reichard, M.A. Schaffner, Barry Spacks, Mark Smith-Soto, Catherine Staples, Theodore Worozbyt, Jake Adam York
Nonfiction by Faye Rapoport DesPres, Maris Venia, Stephen J. West
Fiction by Meagan Ciesla, John Flynn, Dennis Y. Ginoza. Paul Hetzler, David Meischen, Daniel B. Meltzer, Dan Moreau, Linda Stewart-Oaten, Anne Leigh Parrish, Virginia Pye, Scott Loring Sanders, Susan Tepper, Jon Trobaugh, Richard Wiley, Kevin Wilson
All the Roads That Lead From Home
Stories by Anne Leigh Parrish
8.5 x 5.5 paperback, 176 pages
ISBN 978-1-935708-41-4
$14.95
Praise for All the Roads That Lead From Home
“Anne Leigh Parrish has written a collection of stories that deserve a place on the shelf next to Raymond Carver, Tom Boyle, Richard Bausch, and other investigators of lives gone wrong. Parrish writes with painful clarity about marriages turned sour, children at war with their parents, women drifting from one damaging relationship to another, and about unexpected acts of generosity—an impoverished woman giving her battered piano to a priest who had befriended her, a schoolgirl who bribes a boy to pretend an interest in an overweight classmate, then finds that her kindness has disastrous consequences. These are potent and artful stories, from a writer who warrants attentive reading.”
— C. Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
“Through stone-cold sentences and imagery that is stark, but never barren, Anne Leigh Parrish examines the difference between the heartbreak we are born into and the heartbreak we willingly seek out. Parrish asks what love beyond the mere bodily clench looks like, and how far will we go to find a love we can live with.”
— Gina Ochnser, author of The Russian Dream Book of Colour and Flight
“Anne Leigh Parrish’s writing is pitch perfect, beautiful in detail and restraint, but what sets her stories apart is how they sneak up on you, each building to a surprisingly and deeply satisfying conclusion. Taken together in this collection, they resonate as an emotionally charged sonata of loss and hope.”
— Tom Dooley, Editor of Eclectica Magazine
“In her debut collection, Anne Leigh Parrish gives us eleven sharp stories that lay bare the human need for connection, forgiveness, new life. Her working-class characters blaze off the page.”
— Jill Meyers, Editor of American Short Fiction
Now available from Press 53.
The 2011 Press 53 Spotlight showcases five short story authors and three poets earning recognition through publication and awards.
Three of Anne’s short stories, which will also be found in her first story collection, All The Roads That Lead From Home, are included. The stories are “Surrogate,” which first appeared in the spring 2009 edition of The Pinch; “All The Roads That Lead From Home,” which appeared in the summer/fall 2008 edition of American Short Fiction; and “The Fall,” originally published in October 2010 in Prime Number Magazine.