In Christopher Newgent’s The Fullness of Everything, characters move about lives startled by the uncertainties of loss. A woman recognizes her own falling after witnessing a suicide jumper flash by her office window; a man afraid to rekindle a fiery alcoholism lives only on soups and vegetables; the sound of snow falling becomes the small feet of miscarried children. In these 12 elegant fictions, the most trivial things come to mean everything and nothing in light of the one certainty we all take for granted. Tyler Gobble’s collection of poems, Goodness is a Fine Thing to Chase, shouts amongst the whispers, striving to become the hollering itself. A baby burns in a meth lab explosion and we’re begged to put it out. The pets we hold are making us too comfortable and do we even know how we plan to deal with it? These poems reach out and want to talk, but no, they won’t calm down first. Come See For Yourself is a series of stories about each county of Brian Oliu’s home state of New Jersey. Each piece tries to encompass the strangeness of the Garden State by retelling the stories of both the author and those who call New Jersey home. From the Jersey Shore to the Delaware Water Gap to the Ironbound to the Pine Barrens, the odd landscapes provide a backdrop for Oliu’s quest to pinpoint what makes a place that can be so foreign feel like home.