A cow falls through the roof of a bar, landing on a criminal struggling with his bad choices. A recovering gambler wins and wrecks a car on the same day. A mysterious woman transforms toys and oddities into higher powers for newcomers at a twelve-step program. In a fit of road rage, an angry driver mistakenly flips off a cop. A broken man finds a curious companion while attending the reunion show of the favorite heavy-metal band from his youth. These are the strange stories of the all-too-real world of Always One Mistake. Here, author Ace Boggess shows humanity at its bleakest, but also its most hopeful. These stories are explorations of what it means to live in modern times— times filled with addiction, crime, loss, and overcoming.

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In ULTRA DEEP FIELD, Ace Boggess "creates poetry rich with surprise and revelation . . . poems about the `ultra deep field¿ of the universe, garbage trucks, fake orchids, and having a one-night stand with a good poem . . . though¿the danger here is long term.¿¿Marc Harshman, WV poet laureate

"Ace Boggess's ESCAPE ENVY is a book of reckoning, a poetry collection that takes clear-eyed but tender measure of what we lose when we lose ourselves-to addiction, heartache, incarceration, and to time's ravenous passage. In richly layered love poems, elegies, and portraits of minor catastrophes, Boggess examines what imprisons us and what can set us free. Sometimes, the beauty of a rose garden saves us as "[w]e breathe in until we suffocate / from pleasure." Sometimes, a person's recollected love continues, despite long absence, to salvage us "again & again ad infinitum." And always, there are poems, like these poems, offering us succor, singing us home." -Francesca Bell, author of BRIGHT STAIN

"Ace Boggess's The Prisoners gives voice to those forgotten Americans behind the ever increasing miles of razor wire. Complicated with the mixed emotions of regret and defiance, of loss and perseverance, of hope and frustration, these aren't just persona poems, nor are they just poems of witness; rather these poems are metaphors, too, for the way each of us may feel jailed by circumstance only to find a kind of freedom in the possibilities of poetry." --Gerry LaFemina, author of Vanishing Horizon and Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist

I HAVE LOST THE ART OF DREAMING IT SO by Ace Boggess is a full-length poetry collection.

Collin Hearst is a timid young reporter covering the Pittsburgh music scene during the early 1990s. Largely inept at dealing with other people, he hides behind characters he refers to as his "routines." December Leigh, lead singer of the alternative-rock band Cancer Moon, also has identity issues, hiding behind more literal masks. When they get together, what follows is a whirlwind tour of sex, drugs, and self-discovery, all set against a backdrop of colorful '90s subculture and a soundtrack that Collin will hear forever in his mind. "Harrowing and authentic... Boggess writes like a demented coroner cutting into living bodies." --John Van Kirk, author of Song for Chance "This novel would be just as potent and vivid on film--or as a stage play or a graphic novel. Song is both philosophy and thrilling suspense--grunge-era lyrics scrawled across the pages of Camus." --Andrea Fekete, author of Waters Run Wild "A Song Without a Melody is Ace Boggess at his best: lurid prose, a strong sense of place, and the heart and forward momentum that makes him a master storyteller." --Eliot Parker, author of Fragile Brilliance Ace Boggess is a freelance writer and editor living in Charleston, West Virginia. He is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Lumina, Mid-American Review, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly, and hundreds of other journals. He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and spent five years in a West Virginia prison. But that's another story.

Ace Boggess is author of four books of poetry, most recently IHave Lost the Art of Dreaming It So (Unsolicited Press, 2018) andUltra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017), and the novel A SongWithout a Melody (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016). His recent fictionappears in Notre Dame Review, Superstition Review, Lumina, and Flyway.He received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Artsand spent five years in a West Virginia prison. He lives inCharleston, West Virginia.

A collection of 21 short stories and poems that are uncanny, unexpected, and thought-provoking from 20 different contributors.