The 7th edition of the semi-annual collection of fiction published by Bartleby Snopes. This issue features our Dialogue Contest winners, our Story of the Month winners, and a handful of other great stories.

Issue 5 of Bartleby Snopes features over 20 great stories including our Dialogue Contest Finalists and Story of the Month Winners.

The sixth issue of Bartleby Snopes features 18 stories and artwork from the first half of 2011.

Vol. 7 in the 2014 series - 31 writers each taking the same day of the month to weave a year-long novella

Catherine the Great, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, was a fascinating woman and legends about her abound. Catherine refracted is a re-imagining of her life and the legends about her. Her lovers, her illegitimate children, her wiles, her wit and her place in history ... all feature in this lively reinterpretation of one of history's most beloved and reviled leaders.

The first-ever collection of Post-Experimental fiction presented by Bartleby Snopes and featuring stories and artwork from Jacob M Appel, Andrew Battershill, Justin Bostian, CS DeWildt, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Jacqueline Doyle, Joachim Frank, Jamie Leigh Haden, Christopher James, Hall Jameson, Len Kuntz, Andrea Mason, Leland Neville, Uzodinma Okehi, Stephen V Ramey, Lauren Stone, Edward Trefts, and Sandra Yagi.

Finalist • PEN / Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted • Aspen Words Literary Prize Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and Entropy Best Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature Welcome to Cross River, Maryland, where Rion Amilcar Scott creates a mythical universe peopled by some of the most memorable characters in contemporary American fiction. Set in the mythical Cross River, Maryland, The World Doesn’t Require You heralds “a major unique literary talent” (Entertainment Weekly). Established by the leaders of America’s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, the town still evokes the rhythms of its founding. With lyrical prose and singular dialect, Rion Amilcar Scott pens a saga that echoes the fables carried down for generations—like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet death. Among its residents—wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species—are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God’s last son; Tyrone, a ruthless, yet charismatic Ph.D. candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who obeys his Master. Culminating with an explosive novella, The World Doesn’t Require You is a “leap into a blazing new level of brilliance” (Lauren Groff) that affirms Rion Amilcar Scott as a writer whose storytelling gifts the world very much requires.

Mark Lando's unique perspective on thoroughbred body language has given me an ability to separate contenders. It's an edge that I didn't have before, which immediately led to profitable results." - Charles "Chip" Reed, One of Maryland's leading stakes winning owners and breeders and a Director of the Maryland Thoroughbred Horseman's Association. The primary focus of this book is to show the player how to get an edge in this difficult game. Doing what everyone else is doing erodes value and dooms the bettor to failure. Lando's "Game Plan" using angles, tells and strategies affords the handicapper in-the-now ability to garner large, exciting pay offs. The Addendum showing the results of his stratagem is original. Lando's approach eschews the usual salvo of tedious charts and graphs making "Game Plan for Signers" an easy-to-understand archetypal exercise based on common sense and thoroughbred psyche.. MARK LANDO, a journalism graduate of American University, an Army Veteran and lifelong horse lover and handicapper, fell in love with horses at the age of five at ranch camp in Columbia County, New York. Lando worked in the periodical industry for over 40 years as President and CEO of several companies. He also owned book stores in Pennsylvania and New York. Lando has owned and raced thoroughbreds since college and recently has managed horseracing partnerships. He divides his time between York, Pennsylvania and South Florida.