Silent Clamor Press
Silent Clamor publishes emotionally resonant literary and upmarket fiction that illuminates the depths of human experience. Our carefully curated books combine literary excellence with compelling storytelling—works of depth and integrity that transform how we see ourselves and the world.
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And Your Byrd Can Sing
by Jim Roberts
January 20, 2026
Billy, who lost his arm as a child in a violent car accident, grows up among the piney woods, red-dirt backroads, and small towns of East Texas, where physical vulnerability, limited work, and inherited loyalties press in on daily life. He must decide whom he will stand by and what harm he will accept in doing so, drawing the reader into sustained tension, closeness, dread, and moral pressure.
Painting Grace
by Mary Hester
February 24, 2026
Miriam Johnson, widowed and recently diagnosed with cancer after a lifetime shaped by loss, remains in her long-held home among the live-oak-shaded streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she must dismantle her independence, accept unwanted help, and decide what to release before time runs out, drawing the reader into intimacy, sorrow, and quiet pressure.
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The Shadow Girl
by Misty Mount
Zylia Moss, who was once left behind at a park as a child and learned how easily she could vanish from notice, lives in an aging house and an indifferent town where being overlooked feels normal—until she begins to disappear for real. As her body slips into the same in-between realm that claimed her great-aunt, she must force herself to be seen or be lost forever. A story that pulls readers into mounting dread, urgency, and claustrophobic fear.
A Gathering Place
by Vicki Salloum
Bahia “Blue” Bechara, who lost her Mississippi Gulf Coast home to Hurricane Katrina while she was away tending her dying brother settles into post-storm New Orleans—Central City’s Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, with its boarded storefronts, heat, and street danger—where she must build and inhabit a gathering place despite family resistance and bodily risk, pressing readers into sustained tension, unease, and intimate closeness.
A Graveyard of First Chapters
by Johnny Payne
Jasper Delgado, who lost his home, savings, and stability after a failed relationship and a compulsive run at day trading left him broke and transient, moves through a sun-blasted Southwestern city of junkyards, warehouses, car washes, cracked sidewalks, and desert hills smelling of creosote and dust, where he must decide how far to go to survive without repeating the same ruin, drawing the reader into mounting pressure, strain, and closeness.
The Bankrupt Circus & Other Misadventures
by J. Bradley Minnick
Men shaped early by routine working-class humiliations—missed fathers, public correction, bodily exposure, and jobs that place them in view without authority—move through the brick neighborhoods, steel-valley hillsides, tennis courts, supermarket aisles, and nursing-home corridors of western Pennsylvania, where they must maintain controlled versions of themselves to keep work, family, and footing intact, drawing the reader into sustained tension, closeness, and dread.
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The Space Between Now and Then
by Michael Loyd Gray
Spring 2026
Working-class boys and men who learned early—through public humiliation, domestic violence, sudden death, and quiet abandonment—that protection and tenderness carry consequence move through Midwestern farm towns, riverbanks, diners, pool halls, duplexes, gravel roads, and fading main streets. Shaped by these places, they must endure intimacy, decide when to leave, and risk staying put, drawing the reader into constriction, apprehension, and unprotected closeness.
One Way
by Hélène Herault, translated by Liza Tripp
Spring 2026
Béatrice, who stayed married to Gaëtan for thirty-two years after a violent incident in the Verdon Forest when she was eighteen, abandons their home without warning and begins sending him letters he cannot answer—letters that arrive at his office and house, exposing his professional misconduct and private cruelty while she and another woman prepare formal complaints against him, forcing readers to endure the mounting pressure of her methodical, irreversible campaign.
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