Books published by 918studio Press

Rose Emma Parmlee reflects on her 90 years as she compiles a diary that she began in her youth. As she records the migration of a family from England, to the new England, to Iowa, Rose exposes a family's deepest secrets, including her own unrecoverable relationship with her mother, cousins a bit too close by blood and water, and an entire lineage her siblings never knew. rough an elegantly accessible, minimalist style, like the silence and whispers of all dark secrets, Rose takes the reader into her confidence to join an epistolary journey through intricate relationships, complicated ancestries, and intertwining lives that shaped a watershed and every woman's place within it.

Breakfast at The Good Hope Home blends prose and poetry to describe the changes a young adult male faces after his father with Alzheimer's disease is placed under a nursing home's care. As the disease progresses, he loses the father he has known, getting discouraged when his father becomes unresponsive. With staff encouragement, he continues to visit and tried to find meaning, desperately hoping his words reach something deep inside of his father, who is staring up at the ceiling.With his father in the nursing home, the life he has known at home disintegrates. The neglected house needs repair and must be sold to cover expenses. He must help his mother who cannot accept the consequences of the disease. He must cope with the situation of his father becoming a child to him while working a job as a child welfare worker, and he finds his own place to live.Through verse and vignettes, Breakfast at The Good Hope Home describes the father's decline from an able-minded person to one who needs constant care while the son helplessly watches him decline. In the end, he learns to let go lovingly, and although he has expected his father's death for years, the loss of his father's physical presence comes as a shock. He is drawn to his mother by the grief they share and by a promise he made to his father, finding relief in a final conversation.Breakfast at The Good Hope Home blends prose and poetry to describe the changes a young adult male faces after his father with Alzheimer's disease is placed under a nursing home's care. As the disease progresses, he loses the father he has known, getting discouraged when his father becomes unresponsive. With staff encouragement, he continues to visit and tried to find meaning, desperately hoping his words reach something deep inside of his father, who is staring up at the ceiling.With his father in the nursing home, the life he has known at home disintegrates. The neglected house needs repair and must be sold to cover expenses. He must help his mother who cannot accept the consequences of the disease. He must cope with the situation of his father becoming a child to him while working a job as a child welfare worker, and he finds his own place to live.Through verse and vignettes, Breakfast at The Good Hope Home describes the father's decline from an able-minded person to one who needs constant care while the son helplessly watches him decline. In the end, he learns to let go lovingly, and although he has expected his father's death for years, the loss of his father's physical presence comes as a shock. He is drawn to his mother by the grief they share and by a promise he made to his father, finding relief in a final conversation.

How long does a high school crush last? One year? Ten? Twenty? Forty? Small-college basketball coach Matt Cooper is about to find out as he is faced with an unexpected reunion with Kim Gustafson, the cutest girl from high school.With warm humor and a light touch, Another Life probes the weighty matters of love, loss, and the passage of time, raising poignant questions about how well we know ourselves or the people we live with, and what we'd do if offered a lost opportunity, all these years later. This is a sweet, soulful story that will leave you thinking about your own what-ifs. ~ Misty Urban, author of A Lesson in MannersAnother Life is a nuanced and poignant exploration of family, loyalty, and the possibility of second chances. Tom McKay writes about the intricacies of the human heart, and life's unexpected challenges and opportunities, with deft assurance. A story that is highly recommended. ~ Kathleen Ernst, author of the Chloe Ellefson Mysteries