During the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein gassed Kurdish villages on the Iran-Iraq border. What would it have taken to save one such village? Through information gathered at a game of cards while in convalescence, a nameless agent of the secret soc...
Mark, a self-concerned aspiring writer, slips from relationship to relationship, sinking deeper into a cocoon of isolation from others. Saved from a watery death by the selfless act of a stranger, Mark strives to be more like that heroic man, but, la...
The short stories in this collection have appeared in The Ampersand, Apotheosis: Journal of the Poetic Genius Society, Drop the Buddha, The Kudzu Monthly, Noesis-E, Tickled by Thunder, and Ubiquity: Journal of the Ultranet between 1990 and 2006....
Jackson brings together his most recently published short fiction between two covers. Stories in When a Stranger Wandered In have apppeared previously in Apotheosis, Perfection, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Daily Love, Gold Dust, and Lost Cause Quarte...
When Professor Anders Byrne is confronted with the loss of his wife, his cleanly mathematical world begins to unwind. What was once safely predictable becomes unclear.
He accepts a lectureship at Cambridge, only to find that a former student ha...
The short stories in this collection have appeared in The Ampersand, Apotheosis: Journal of the Poetic Genius Society, Distant Worlds, Drop the Buddha, Hauteurs, The Kudzu Monthly, Noesis-E, Perfection, Tickled by Thunder, and Ubiquity: Journal of th...
This work delivers an intricately woven tapestry of fractured recollection, longing, and relentless artistic drive. Drawing thematic inspiration from a mosaic of experiences, from his youth in British Columbia's logging camps to the sweltering summer...
Cyrus Drake, a celebrated painter at the vanguard of modern expressionism, finds himself ensnared between the echoes of a tragic, hazy past and the harsh realities of a present where his art feels as faded as the rathskeller jazz bar he frequents. On...