Body Lines: Volume I (Winter 2025)

Welcome to the debut volume of Body Lines, a contemporary journal of new long fiction. This companion series to Subtle Body Press's well received short fiction anthology series Body Shots showcases powerful and unique voices writing in the medium of the novella.

As with Body Shots, there are no limits to form or genre in Body Lines, only a commitment to bringing you new, emerging, and established writers operating at the top of their craft.

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In Max Halper's psychosexual bildungsroman That Foul Revolt, college Freshman Ashley Fadden and her boyfriend Isaac embark on a trip to Amsterdam. While there, Ashley sets out to exact revenge for her best friend Jennifer's murder-one man at a time.

Meanwhile, Kent Kosack gives us Adar's Freedom, an epistolary tale composed of journal entries, notes, and transcript fragments, in which an unnamed narrator documents his brilliant friend Adar's obsession with an elusive dream that will prove either to be Adar's salvation or undoing.

And Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee John R.C. Potter takes us back to the days of the Great Depression in The General Store at Four Corners, where a young rambler's arrival sets in motion a chain of events igniting smoldered passions and dredging up buried secrets that threaten to upend the lives of the Burnbridges family forever.

Multimodal author and award-winning filmmaker Cliff Hensley is the Editor-in-Chief of indie publishing house Subtle Body Press, which he also co-founded. Aside from Co-Editing Seven Story Hotel, he is the Editor of the short fiction anthology series Body Shots and its novella-focused sister series, Body Lines. His most recent authorial work, the macabre horror 'prose LP' "Now You See," was released in 2022 through Shiloh House Press, and a new novel is forthcoming. Cliff has also written for the world-renowned cyberpunk-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Shadowrun and third-party adventures for doom-metal dungeon crawler Mörk Borg. Visit him online at www.cliffhensley.com, where you can also find convenient links to follow him on the social media outlet of your choice.