MEET YELLOW

Can a unicellular organism guide the way back to ourselves?

It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence with this magical creature—until an incident with a serial killer at the lake changes everything.

Both mystifying and metaphorical, Yellow becomes a guiding force for her brother Clem, a New Orleans seeker. As years pass, Z tries to recover what life has taught her to forget. A multi-threaded novel, Yellow weaves fact, physics, space exploration, and philosophy to create a transcendent reading experience.

RED HEN PRESS | SPRING 2026

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What readers are saying about YELLOW

“Pence’s construction of this novel reads like dimensional performance art.”


“This isn’t just a novel; this is an absolutely amazing work of art…and ya’ll need to run and get this book. This is nothing like I’ve ever experienced before in my life!”

"Five stars for a novel that feels like stepping into a dream you half remember and half-fear you imagined."

“Written in hazy, evocative prose, Yellow is a story of connection with the unknown, violence, and dreams. And a slime mold. And Watergate. Of course. Part sci-fi, part tone poem."

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