Linden Lane Magazine was founded by the Cuban poets Heberto Padilla and Belkis Cuza Mal , in Princeton, NJ, in 1982. It is devoted to Cuban art and literature produced around the world.
A young basketball player seizes his moment and makes a move that shocks his coach and fellow players. An ornery, independent old man struggles to escape the confines of a nursing home. In a school dormitory, a group of bullied boys plan a revolution against their older oppressors. A devoted musician watches his band disintegrate under the pressures of "real life." These stories and more are the work of Paul Uche, a talented young author taken from the world too soon. Uche's tight control of language, his crisp, incisive thinking, and his playful use of even the simplest words results in extraordinary tales of what would otherwise be ordinary life experiences. Seemingly day-to-day events become exceptional under Uche's skillful guidance, offering something to every reader-regardless of their social status, race, or gender. These are tales that linger in one's memory, tempting the audience to return and discover new subtleties of emotion with each reading. Trapped in Uche's insightful tales are moments that stir the soul to laughter and tears. Switching Lanes and Other Stories is more than a collection of short stories by a talented author-it is a compilation of the human spirit in all its myriad moods.
A novel of the lost and the broken. Of sharing the silences, talking to the stars, and the importance of tin openers.A troubled young woman witnesses her parents final moments. Dying as their crashed car is consumed in flames. Grief-stricken lost and alone her mind withdraws into darkness. Finding empty solace within the walls of her subconscious. She walks away carrying with her a terrible secret she hides even from herself.She follows no direction, save one away from people, because people hurt, people bully and people ask questions. Questions she does not wish to answer, even to herself. Suffering from shock and the beginnings of exposure she just keeps walking.Miles away in Scotland, A man lays beneath the stars, conversing with them as if they are old friends. Once a brilliant academic he has lost everything and is now living in the shadows of his a broken life wracked with the haunting griefs of his past. He walks the roads and sleeps in lost abandoned places. Hitching rides, he carries with him the ghosts of the past. Remembering a place where the cider apples grow in the summer sunshine.Ahead of them both in the depths of Summerset there lays an abandoned cottage in an orchard off Cider Lane. A place forgotten by the world, broken down and half ruined. Drawing them both together unwittingly. It is a haven, a place to rest and regrowth in the summer sun. Stumbling upon it the girl sets about surviving, free of spiteful people and their dangerous questions.When the traveller arrives for the apple harvest, he found in the lost young girl someone as broken and damaged by the world as he once was. Together perhaps they can save each other. Amid ruins of the past.But first, they must learn to trust once more in another. If only they can. While the world is ever waiting to crash in on them once more. Meanwhile, the police search for the girl, and a young officer with his own dark past is determined to save her from the fate that befell his sister. And the world never forgets anyone for long. Winner of the Publisher's Book Club Book of the Month award, November 2015Dark with humour and a cynic's view of the world around us, among the hidden forgotten. The world where everyone must conform to the rules, and what happens to those that chose to walk away. '...An absorbing, melancholy, read...''...altogether beautiful, tragic and sad...''...thought-provoking...'
Moving on from a past fraught with cruelty and pain to pursue her dream is all gutsy, Toni Rizzo wants to do. The only thing that can crush her dreams are her own fears and insecurities. An internship with the best team in racing and a surprise meeting with the tall and handsome racecar driver gets her flustered. Her engineering and mechanical skills are on offer, everything she has except her heart. With his heart crushed by the only woman he ever cared about, racing champion, Julius Fuller pursues and gets any woman he wants. When a beautiful intern is brought in to work with his crew chief, his attraction to her is instant, only this woman has more backbone than he's used to dealing with. Her attitude both infuriates him and turns him on. Julius suspects she's hiding something beneath her beauty and boldness. But will he ever figure her out?When Julius reaches the finish line, will Toni be there? How long will they wait to reach their Victory Lane?
