1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings to…
Flavor Town USA: “Boxed Mac and Cheese,” a poem by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
today i madeboxed mac and cheese on the stovenot the oven but it was still edibleand the best that i…
Frederick Arias: Opera kitsch for RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE by Mike Corrao
Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede emphasizes the ludological role of abstract anatomies and how they project different erotic…
Esteban Rodríguez Reviews EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK, an Action Books poetry collection by Valerie Mejer Caso
There is no telling what anyone’s reaction to death will be, but for many putting pen to paper helps process…
Maria Judnick Reviews CALL IT HORSES, a Dzanc Books epistolary road novel by Jessie van Eerden
“I write you about the dead. I write you to stay alive and, after all this time, I write you,…
Haunted Passages: “Swamp Thing Explains How Time Passes in the Middle of Dueling Crises,” a poem by Jack B. Bedell
It’s never a matter of value. When I’m standing at the edge of the cypress grove looking over the coastline,…
The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell
A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of…
“The Seedier Angels of Our Nature”: Derek Maine on Reading BODY HIGH by Jon Lindsey
Los Angeles is an almost incomprehensively vast place. The expanse opens up a world of nooks, crannies, and hiding places…
KISSING A TREE SURGEON, Eleanor Levine’s short story collection, reviewed by Judy T. Oldfield
On page 133 of Eleanor Levine’s story collection, Kissing a Tree Surgeon, I sat up straight, thrown for a loop…
Maria Judnick on SYDNEYSIDE REFLECTIONS, an Everytime Press travelogue by Mark Crimmins
For the last year in much of the world, many of us have spent most of our days at home.…
Side A Short Story: “Dolphin Adventure” by Robert Long Foreman
“Interview”: Ben Segal Talks to WORKS Author Grant Maierhofer
Grant Maierhofer’s Works collects four separate books into a sprawling volume that functions simultaneously as a compendium and a bildungsroman,…
