Soup Stories is a coming-of-age memoir set at a salad buffet and bakery restaurant. It is a "reconstructed" memoir; a mixture of memories and fantasies, combined with the truth of perspective and experience. While each short piece stands alone as a complete vignette, the collection also reads as a cohesive narrative. Beginning in 1998, the story follows Ferguson's ten-year journey, from being hired for the first time (outside of babysitting and household chores) to finally completing a PhD in Communication, and being hired as a full-time professor. Ferguson deftly weaves heart and humor into these tales of sex, drugs, heartbreak, failure, and redemption. While the narrative is derived from Ferguson's reconstructed memory, memories of other's reassigned as her own, and some complete fantasies, names (other than her own) and identifying details have been changed to protect those she loved, learned from, and ultimately released.

Evocative of the legacy the women's movement has inspired, the twenty-one poems in this slender volume tell a deeply personal, but universal story. Navigating the ordeals women face with grace and wit, the speaker courageously confronts her own biases, as well as her own history, with sobering honesty and relentless candor. Offered in plainspoken, clearly accessible language, we find joy in unexpected moments as the speaker struggles to become a mother, despite the obstacles she must overcome.

With the fourth wave of feminism launching with the #metoo movement in 2017, Literary Alchemy Press presents the start of the second Volume of the Poetry and Fiction Zine as an homage to women and men that fight for equality and women's rights. This volume represents the new heroes that young girls have to look up to while representing the old who helped us get to this point.