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Wish You Well by Renee Talbot I was bored of my cup. I know just by saying that though that it will now break and I will miss it and regret saying bad things about my cup. I will then…

From The People’s Almanac of Modern Regret, 2005 – 2013 by Vince Palladino DATE: 20 May 2006 LOCATION: 45.0408° N, 93.2628° W WEATHER: 74° AUTHOR: Palladino, Vince The two emails came within hours of one another: the first from my…

Big Event by Rowan Estes I went for it in August. I told all of my friends “I’m going to go for it.” They were all like “Right on, man,” and “you go, girl.” So I went for it big…

We’re excited to announce the start of a new Web site feature: Backshelf Books. For the month of December, our Backshelf Book is Marla Jean Prescott’s As Close to Smiling as You Can Get.

The Buff by Ella Marie Doran 34 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Nathan Grant Ashcroft Covers by Elsie Grover Silicone trenches. Gold amphitheaters. Whole red rivers. The clouds, the clouds, the clouds. Through the gutpunch sentences of these twenty-eight pieces…

Play by Tobias Kellner 36 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Grant Ashcroft. Cover design by Rusty Vollmer. Children need preoccupations. Children need supervision and bran in their diets and children need instruction. For you, for your children: Play, a collection…

Parables & Lies By Owen Fairbank 76 pages. Tape Bound. Design by Trent Balko. The Cupboard’s inaugural pamphlet contains thirty-six short narratives about weary travelers and siblings of strange portent. Here is a world of kingdoms and distrust, of strangers…

Our Commutual Mea Culpa by Renata Voss 30 pages. Tape-bound. Book design by Elsie Grover In 1829, an anonymous writer published the domestic tale of wicked children and sexual intrigue titled Our Commutual Mea Culpa. Later reprinted as Red Casket…