MEET YELLOW

Can a one-celled 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!”

MEET YELLOW

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!”

“Yellow is an ambitious, detail-rich novel that captures the messiness of a whole life, imperfections and all.”

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

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