FOR A LONG TIME THAT morning, the bear occupied herself with a cardboard box. Its walls were plushy and wet—soaked…
“A Storytelling Masterclass”: Gillian Perry on Nana Nkweti’s WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS (Graywolf Press)
Nana Nkweti is unafraid. Unafraid to interlace myth and reality. Unafraid to embrace the polyphony of voices that tell her…
Andrew Farkas Reviews Adam Tipps Weinstein’s THE AIRSHIP: INCANTATIONS (FC2)
In Thomas Pynchon’s V., some of the characters, Benny Profane in particular, engage in “yo-yoing,” an activity that involves going…
OUTRÉ, a “Hörnblowér” novel by D. Harlan Wilson, reviewed by Evan St. Jones
Intro. The world building in D. Harlan Wilson’s Outré slaps you in the face during its introduction and never shows…
Three Poems for Haunted Passages by Eli Dunham
DID YOU KNOW i watch my body lie down on the floor next to me.i amnowhereat thedinner table yet you…
#NoMorePresidents: “Floating Lessons,” a love poem by Levi Cain
i love you atlantic oceani love you dog beach in februaryyour hair swirling in the wind all perfumei love you…
“Widower,” a Haunted Passages Short Story by X. Luma
ONE SPRING AFTERNOON, WHILE WIDOWER was gathering lettuce from the garden, his daughter Lew called out from her siblings nearby.…
MONA AT SEA, a novel by Elizabeth Gonzalez James, reviewed by Maria Judnick
“I’m unemployed, I’ve never had a boyfriend, I live with my parents in the most boring town on the planet,…
“A Restless Sensibility”: Marcus Pactor Talks to John Domini, Author of THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A GOOD RAGÙ
John Domini’s latest book, The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father, and Myself, marks his first venture…
Steve Gergely: “VanLife,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS I’ve been living out of my van. It’s not a lifestyle for everyone, but at…
#NoMorePresidents: Three Poems by Estelle Bajou
Some of Us Are Born Some of us give birth to ourselvesOn the edge of the reservoirWhere you can hear…
Four Poems for Haunted Passages: Violet Mitchell
You Buried Me Right Where I Belong baby i watch you watch me destroy myself baby i am staticending gray…
“the sun I can afford”: Zachary Kinsella on Protest and Compromise in that’s what you get by Sheila Maldonado
that’s what you get, Sheila Maldonado’s second full-length collection, offers rich, emotional weight with a kind of ease that is…
“Matthew Burnside Crafts Stories from a Wiki”: Michael Maiello Investigates the novel WIKI OF INFINITE SORROWS
Wiki is an acronym for “What I Know Is,” and wikis have sprung up all over the internet, covering everything…
Flash Fiction for Haunted Passages: “Preserved From Decay and Endued With Immortality” by Andy Spain
WE BURIED UNCLE CHARLES WAY out back, beyond the orchard, a good two acres from the property line. We picked…
