Short Fiction and Poetry

When Grace was four years old, she pulled a Korean facial mask from her Christmas stocking. “What’s this?” she asked [...]

mama is not dead. she sits under the plum tree beside my window. she’s a bird with prominent feathers; she’s a girl of fifteen [...]

When I was 11 I was uninvited to a birthday party [...]

Sebastian Prescott sat behind the vintage oak desk. The life insurance proceeds from his wife’s demise had finally been deposited [...]

An altar, in a polished frame: a photo of you on a dock smiling at a camera over your shoulder.

You know what ‘vernissage’ means to me? Hunting. They’re always full of clueless collectors, ambitious artists and rich stupid nobodies[...]

Four children had gone missing. It happened quickly. Sixteen days before the end of school. Summer break fast approaching. [...]

I’m here now and I know you’ve been waiting so long that the leaves have fallen, the lawnmowers turned to rust, [...]

Baxter House Editions is excited to announce the re-release of the compelling and timely novel Brown Girl in the Room by Priya Ramsingh!

Three nights in a row now, my little sister had tried to leap out the bedroom window. It wasn’t a big drop, but she'd have gotten hurt [...]