Product Description: Would her life have been better if she’d had sex with her supervisor when she was 23? Hester Smith is a woman who always played life near the sidelines—until she decides to rescue a teenage Mexican prostitute. She’s up against the border sex trade in Southern California that works like a drug cartel, where the smuggled contraband is teenage girls forced to work as prostitutes in undeveloped canyons just outside suburbia...read more

Product Description: In the spirit of her critically acclaimed story collection Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, Cris Mazza has completed a new collection titled Trickle-Down Timeline.  The eleven stories and three micro-fictions in Trickle-Down Timeline are focused glimpses into individual lives subtly influenced by the political and social milieu of the 1980s...read more

Labeled 'disabled' by her family after manifesting epilepsy in childhood, Tam burns out after thirty years of strict vigilance and relocates to Maine, where she learns about the fates of two women whose tragic lives mirror her own. Original.

Product Description: Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California. Coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Mazza’s memories aren’t about surfing, cheerleading or riding in convertibles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cris Mazza's fiction has been called experimental, and stylistically it is, in the same way that Chekov's prose can be called experimental. Like the Russian author, Mazza uses an impressionistic technique to create characters so unusual, they become emblems for whole orders of social ills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: inclusive, fun, sexy, silly, literary feminism

Back in print with a preface by Allan Kornblum and a new introduction by Pamela Caughe. These stories convey a powerful, convincing sense of the bewilderment and excitement of sexual desires. Mazza describes a world that resembles a shopping mall gone mad, populated by ordinary, normal people behaving in ways that mock the very concept of normality. By describing these lives with an acute sense of the absurd, Mazza produces a dark, sometimes hilarious comedy that undercuts the shaky compromise of the consensus we call reality.

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When six people lose their ability to communicate with other people, some of them turn to their dogs for comfort

Product Description: 2nd FC2 anthology of 'postfeminist fiction' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Forces readers to reexamine biases and consider the varying degrees of sexual harassment. "[A] narrative of female rage, the ambiguity of abuse, and the difficulty of negotiating a meaningful life as a woman in America . . . [Mazza] continues to work with passion, insight and a certain cold beauty...read more

Photographer Connie Zamora's photos have a habit of getting her into trouble, especially when she takes a new job with a theater group

Stories deal with the freedom of travel and the effects of travel on personality and relationships

Phelan, a sculptor, and Tara, the painter he lives with, are engaged in a strange relationship--she can remember events from his life, but not from her own, and he can remember the inspiration for her paintings, but she cannot remember painting them

Product Description: In a striking first collection of stories, Cris Mazza brings a startling vision to the familiar terrain of intimate relationships. The eleven stories in Animal Acts describe characters navigating an unsteady course through the turbulence of sexial desire...read more