Truckee Literary Crawl

Set during the 2022-23 school year, Other People's Kids (Sibylline Press 2025) by Kim Culbertson shares the complicated lives of three teachers, each at a crossroads.

Elizabeth Reed Aden reads from The Goldilocks Genome--A Medical Thriller. "Your genes determine whether your antidepressant heals you or harms you — and someone’s figured out how to use this information to kill you."

Meredith Stisser shares an excerpt from The Perfect Way to Live, to be published June 2026 which follows a chance encounter at an art gallery that leads into a polyamorous relationship between a married man and a woman half his age.

Ben Rogers reads from The Daughters, published by UN Press in November, 2025. Renowned―albeit washed-up―author Peter Zemeckis (“Z”) is relishing the sunset of a life spent single when Dr. Nancy Chu crash-lands in the bungalow next door. As Nancy’s family drags him into deeper water, Z must rethink the ending to his own story.

J.A. Forde shares an excerpt from her book On The Ferry to Skye, which is book three in her Love Along the Way series. It showcases the resilience of young love, the strength of old love, and how true love always finds a way—so long as you’re willing to work for it.

Marisa Atha shares from her novel Written on the Wall, which follows the the intertwined lives of four women. A compelling exploration of the ties that bind us and the choices that define us.

Alex Hoeft shares with readers a passage from her short story, The Arrow, published as part of Dark Matter Ink's Little Red Flags: Stories of Cults, Cons, and Control on Feb. 17, 2026.

Anne Merino shares the opening chapter of Palliser Park published in June, 2025. A glittering estate. A deadly fall. In 1919, Simon and Alice Fairlight uncover dangerous secrets hidden behind Palliser Park's dazzling façade.

Brook L. French Brooke is an author of three best-selling thrillers, The Carolina Variant, Inhuman Acts, and Unnatural Intent. Brook reads from Unnatural Intent, which was published in October of 2024.

Jeffrey Vernon Matucha, a well-established author of the Bay Area’s punk rock scene in the 90’s shares a short story of The Closet.  Celebrated punk singer Gail Burp looks through her closet, trying to decide what to wear to visit her late friend, when all the memories come flooding in.

Featured in the literary magazine drip, Michael Thériault reads "And So a Terror," where on a predawn run, a man encounters something that makes him reconsider his intention to father a child.

AnnElise Hatjakes shares from her forthcoming collection Andromeda, soon to be published by University of Nevada Press. In "Andromeda," a college student's visit to a brothel spurs her sexual awakening.

Elizabeth Tucker reads an excerpt from her novel The Pale Flesh of Wood, published by She Writes Press, February 2025.