If someone were to consider Chuck Howe’s entire approach to writing and storytelling on the strength of his collection of (very) short stories If I Had Wings, These Windmills Would Be Dead, they would probably decide that Howe is not a writer who deals in verbosity.

A title like Self-Published Kindling: Memoirs of a Homeless Bookstore owner is ambitious, to say the least. We’re expecting a lot from a title like that. We’re hoping Mik Everett is going to back up that promising title with a hell of a good story, and she does. Mik Everett lives and breathes the fantastic potential of literature. She believes in its restorative powers.