Books

From author Carl Parsons, winner of Penmaster Global’s best short collection of 2025 for Town and Country, comes a new collection of literary stories—Eros and Order: Love That Creates and Destroys. In this collection you’ll encounter:

· A wife who deserts her husband and young children for a life of perfect freedom, she thinks.

· A teen fashion...

City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga Locust Hill. Carl Parsons’ third novel details the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts her discovery of a different world just outside her West Virginia hometown, a quaint...

In this collection of short stories the reader encounters ordinary people struggling with a variety of extraordinary problems that threaten to change their lives: an elderly widower confronting a life of regrets, precocious children threatened with separation, a middle-aged couple facing the loss of their generations-old general store, and many...

Drawn straight from today’s headlines into a soon-to-be America, a broken country gradually beaten down by one-party rule and loss of personal freedoms, Shantyboat follows the story of two homeless men struggling to recover at least a sliver of freedom by building a shantyboat. But their efforts inside a society of surveillance and totalitarian...

Rita Collins, a reporter and writer for a local Washington, DC television station, faces apparently unexplained rejection by her husband, who has suffered amputation of both legs during the Iraq War. He refuses both her affection and any attempts at rehabilitation. At the same time, Rita is investigating a radical political cell on an elite...