WORKS
Vapors, Apparatuses, And Dots
Reily M. Malco
August 2025
525 Pages
$18.95
Vapors, Apparatuses, And Dots is Reily M. Malco’s debut work with Leaf House. It is a lengthy collection featureing over 180 short stories of varying lengths, formats, and styles. The breadth of the work here places it in a category of its own, in many places gracing the reader with tactile prose and in other moments dissolving all the traditional sense of a story. Reily M. Malco received her MFA from the University of Memphis in 2023. Her stories have been published in Ploughshares, Southern Indiana Review, Minnesota Review, Periculum, and commune. Vapor, Apparatuses, And Dots shortlisted the 2025 Story Prize.
“You know you have found a sharp writer with Malco. She can blend so many styles of prose, so many voices of characters, and textures within her texts. I was staggered by the level of diversity in such a new writer. This collection will keep you reading until the last bite.”
--Maggie Nelson
“It’s quite a beefy book filled with boundless ideas. Some are incredible looks into quiet lives. Others are giant chasms of infinite lore. Others are simple rides on the bus. Each story is a different smell in a botanical garden.”
--Lucy Ives
“A beautiful monster of a text.”
--Casey Pycior
“Only a bold bold writer would begin their career with such a debut. This is a writer that mystifies the subject of fiction itself and breaks it down into its essential parts. 10/10 from me.”
--Lucan Hethan
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Crumple.
Lucan Hethan
August 2025
230 Pages
$17.95
Crumple. is Hethan’s second work. His first work, Diamonds (University of Memphis Press) is a collection of short stories that was a finalist for the Indie Short Story Contest of 2023. Crumple is a novel about a man’s great desire to write a novel but he keeps getting stuck on the first page, but as he crumples up each page it begins to happen to him in real life in a strange way. This book loops, goes off of edges you didn’t know it could, and it’s varying language at times as crisp as a technical document and at others as dark as T.S Elliot. It is a beauty within itself. The Novel is a Bestseller in the UK and the US and was recognized as a Honorable mention for the Bard Fiction Prize.
“Hethan’s novel forces the reader to read over pages over and over again, struggling with the meaning of every word.”
--New York Times
“It’s quite a funny book for what it is. Sometimes it gave me the chills and others it made me unnerved by the feeling that I was actually witnessing a dying artistic project right before my eyes. Witty and unforgettable. Calvino and Wallace had a baby.”
--Kate Zambreno
“Love the style and rhythms on each page, and in every sentence.”
--Gary Lutz
To Something
Jack Bethel
March 2025
116 Pages
$16.95
To Something is Jack Bethel’s debut poetry collection. Known for his novel and short story collection, writer and founder of leafhouse has produced his first collection of poetry. Two poems of which were published in POETRY.
Readers will find a challenging collection of poems that require a second, third, and fourth read. Heavily inspired by the literary Cubist movement. Jack brings the style alive for the twenty-first century as a literary Neo-cubist. Reminiscent of Gertrude Stein and the LANGUAGE poets. This collection challenges all boundary’s of what a poem is.
“This guy is a nightmare to edit for.”
--Ron Mitchell
“This isn’t even real poetry!”
--Most people
“What you have here is a case of an editor gone wrong. He is the anti-definition of a good writer. He is a freak and violent maniac. He is perfect and a squab. He is a perfume of justice.”
--Gertrude Stein’s Ghost
