Small Wonders: Short Stories

Jim Daniels is the author of six fiction collections, seventeen poetry collections, and four produced screenplays, and has edited five anthologies. A native of Detroit, he is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In The Perp Walk (Michigan State University Press), his latest collection of linked stories, Daniels maps out the emotional capitals and potholes of coming of age in a blue-collar town in the Great Lakes State, though it could be any state where people work hard, play hard, and aren’t paid nearly enough for their efforts. He is also the editor of RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press). While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including jazz, blues, doo-wop, Motown, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, and techno.

Tom DeMarchi teaches at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the Director of the annual Sanibel Island Writer’s Conference. His work has appeared in the Writer's Chronicle, the Miami Herald, Quick Fiction, the Pinch, Gulfshore Life, the Southeast Review, and other publications. Because of his haircut and monochromatic fashion sense, he is often mistaken for a police officer. Möbius Strips and Other Stories (Rain Chain Press) collects the best of Tom DeMarchi's short and flash fiction across two decades. Stories in the collection were previously published in Flash! Writing the Very Short Story, Cheap Pop, the Miami Herald, and elsewhere. These stories pack a punch, and are accompanied by "twictions", fiction in forty words or less.