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Vince Sgambati’s debut novel, Most Precious Blood, published by Guernica World Editions, received an IPPY Award, a KIRKUS star review, was a Foreword Indies finalist in literary fiction, a Central New York Book Awards Finalist, and was listed as recommended reading by the Working Class Studies Association. Sgambati’s short story collection, Undertow Of Memory, published by Fomite Press, includes stories previously published in literary journals and recognized by Nimrod Literary: the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the LGBTQ Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. Read more about Vince…
Check out Vince’s new novel, Sanctuaries
Sanctuaries, by the award winning author, is the tender story of caring and personal healing, set against the larger turmoil of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, Stonewall, and the lingering ashes of the Holocaust.
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Short Stories + Creative Nonfiction
Find an array of short stories and creative nonfiction, published from 2006-2019.
Most Precious Blood
Hard Luck Lenny is the quintessential good son, brother, and father, and he fears a calamity will derail his son's future the way his own dreams were derailed years ago, but Frankie is preoccupied with thoughts of Gennaro DiCico, the son of a small-time mobster. Lenny's fears are realized when a cabdriver's son avenges his father's murder.
Undertow of Memory
There’s a space between what was and what’s next, where memory comforts and disheartens. The varied protagonists in these character-driven stories live in that undertow: the doctoral student stuck in the memory of a brief sexual experience; the woman recognizing her younger self in a photograph, but confused by the crone who stares back at her from a mirror; the widower, more comfortable among strangers than friends because he doesn’t have to apologize for his loneliness — encounters that open the floodgates.