"We all shared a feeling of hunger, empty bellies, bottomless appetites that when filled, kept us up at night. When we spoke we shouted, all our voices together, a chorus of pleas and protests, rooftop dreams, voices carrying from building to building, no sky scrapers to block them, we all shared a voice, devouring the ears that accepted it, that opened to us. We would be heard. We would dizzily take in those sunrise nights and talk about what it would be like to be heard." To Be Heard is a recollection of a very recent lost time and place, depicting a transitional year in the lives of four...

If Bukowski and Flannery O'Connor would have had a child and read it only Raymond Carver for his bedtime stories, then this collection would have been the result. Dark and relevant to this detached generation, They Always Leave shows us the inevitability of everyone we know leaving us in some manner and the tragic comedy of human actions that comes along with it. In the second part of this collection Roof Alexander writes of thieves that can't be put in jail, of the ones who steal pride, hearts, beauty, and reality. These stories evoke the delusions of love, the beauty of destruction, the...

It's the summer of 1999, right before the innovation revolution, right before technology surged past romanticism. Moll and Ecc have given away all of their possessions and set off on a journey without destination, trading in progression for freedom in hopes of capturing that one singular moment that gives validation to life, that gives silent answers where answers didn't seem possible before. From the the hills of San Francisco, to the small desert gambling towns of Nevada, to revisiting of old haunts in Boulder and New Orleans, and across all the roads that lead from West to East, the two...