Lake Drive

One day at the height of summer, a group of restaurant employees in a small college town in northern Missouri wake up to a world that has changed: random people have vanished and been re-placed by strangers. But these replacements are strangers only to them; the rest of the world sees nothing amiss, the replaced American president, professional athletes, and actors and entertainers wiped from their memories. As the summer progresses, the staff discover that they can each return one person's memory. But who will each of them choose, and why?

Joe Baumann's is the author of three collections of short fiction, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, and Hot Lips. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. His debut novel, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, is forthcoming from Deep Hearts YA. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.