Jennifer Frost Writes

“We write to create the books that we would like to read, that haven’t yet been written—possibly.”—Joyce Carol Oates

  • “Faces in the Flames,” by N.T. McQueen

    by Jennifer Frost

    Coming in August 2026 from Silent Clamor Press, Faces in the Flames by N.T. McQueen gives us a multi-faceted gem in the shape of Stone Lake, CA, the fictional hill town captured in this short story collection. Each of these thirteen stories stands alone, published separately prior to this edition, and combining here into not-quite-a-novel,…

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  • Simple Songs for the End of the World by MC Schmidt

    by Jennifer Frost

    Even before the story, the music begins. “Here’s a tune I wrote before any of this,” goes the first sentence of Simple Songs for the End of the World, spoken by Gus as he gives us a line of musical notation, a little melody high up in treble clef, just a few bars. “I hum…

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  • On Leaving Neverland

    by Jennifer Frost

    A part of me, like Peter Pan, will always live in Neverland… But if you skin your knee one afternoon in Neverland, you’ll skin it every afternoon. And every time you trip on that same tree root lying across the forest path, you’ll fall to the ground again, hurt and sniffling, bleeding a little, while…

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  • Publication Announcement: Cradle and All

    by Jennifer Frost

    In their recent Instagram post, Silent Clamor Press announced the January 2027 release date of my new novella, Cradle and All.

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  • United States map divided into six regions labeled Pacifica, Northland, Heartland, Liberty, Dixie, and New England.

    A More Perfect Union (Briefs), A Book of Essays by Alexander Moss

    by Jennifer Frost

    Moss’s essays discuss his own growing fears of the disastrous potential outcomes of political factionalism and irreconcilable differences. It is because a second civil war is such a terrifying prospect that he devises an alternative approach.

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