"Root and Shoot" offers fifty two of Nathan Leslie's best new flash and short fiction pieces. Featuring stories published in "Boulevard, Shenandoah, Gargoyle, Red Rock Review, JMWW, Hobart" and "Cimarron Review," among many others, "Root and Shoot" pokes its warm muzzle into the fictional loam. There is a bit of everything for everyone in this eclectic collection: crab islands, subway surfers, make out clubs, lizard-outfit-wearers, toll road operators, obsessive children, the indigent and homeless, the rankled and weary, the neurotic and fearful, the resentful and lonely, and those who defy...

A collection of short fiction by Joel Allegretti, Peter Baroth, Marilu Beas, Annie Bien, Peter Byrne, Lisa J. Cihlar, James Claffey, Lydia Cortes, Daniela Elza, Shinelle L. Espaillat, Evald Flisar, Christine Hamm, Rose Hunter, Shalom Mensu Ikhena, Franklin Lafayette King, Lynn Levin, Paul Lisicky, Bobbi Lurie, Michael McGilloway, Tara L. Masih, Jen Michalski, Susan Smith Nash, Liz Tynes Netto, Debi Orton, Lisa Prince, Charles Rammelkamp, Don Riggs, John Wolfgang Roberts, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Scott Stein, and Elizabeth Thorpe.

Believers is a short story collection that vividly examines surprising people and their belief systems. Leslie's intricate stories delve into the often odd behaviors of snake handlers and voodoo specialists, mystical new age preachers, agnostics and hermits, prophets and jazz junkies, and born-again tapestry collectors. All believe deeply in their various gods.