Author: Heavy Feather
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I CAN SEE YOU WRITE #2: Neil Clark
This is Lucy. I CAN SEE YOU WRITE is a collaborative project where I work with writers to create interactive and/or generative poetry and stories. You write stuff and I write code and we come up with a visual narrative and user experience built for the web. The sky and JavaScript is the limit. I’m…
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“Mom’s House”: A Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
My double is bored; I tell him it’s not my fault—he still looks at me judgmentally. So we have a staring contest, because they’re fun, and the loser has to give the winner a piggyback ride. “All the way to Mom’s house,” I drawl, raising the stakes. “Smoking cigarettes,” my double shoots back, knowing how much…
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“Lunch Break”: A Bad Survivalist Short Story by Stephanie Austin
The sky over my chosen park bench is summer and painful. Fold my hands. Block out the kids running with the little red ball. Close my eyes. Breathe. The bench shifts. Another woman, an older woman, situates herself next to me. She smells like cinnamon gum. She reaches into her coat pocket, and her elbow…
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Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, Erin Carlyle’s debut poetry collection, reviewed by Nicholas Rys (Driftwood Press)
Carlyle’s full-length poetry collection is as full and rich of naturalistic and surreal imagery as its title suggests. The book is a haunting exploration and a portrait of what it means to grow up as a girl and woman in the forgotten South. Here, characters shuffle in and out of drug clinics, go down to…
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“Bunnyman Bridge Is Haunted”: A Haunted Passages Hybrid Piece by Colleen Kearney Rich
The legend is that a bus from the insane asylum crashed near the bridge and patients escaped. One patient was never found. But they did find the remains of several dead rabbits. I remember stopping at the Sonic for onion rings and a cherry limeade. Max always has these tiny bottles of vodka in the…
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“Ten Reasons Why You, as a Country’s President, Should Send a Congratulation Message to a New President of Another Country,” a short story by Zhihui Zou
#10: You need someone to talk to because you have poisoned the tea of all your colleagues. #9: You need to suck up to them because your country has no nukes. #8: You need to remind the public that your country is actually a country and not a joke. #7: You and they share the…
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Ricky Ray Poem: “The Dream” for Haunted Passages
In which the monster emerged sludgehearted and fond of hares.And triplets were born of a wish that blew itself apart.Candleflame ignored the wind.Her face, thirty years on ice,the one my waking mind can’t find in the crowd.Water in the streets so high you could swim.I was a woman.I was a wolf. I could hear hunger…
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“Sour Candy”: A Haunted Passages Flash Fiction by Lindy Biller
My mother carried bright colored candies with her everywhere. Usually Skittles or M&M’s. It didn’t strike me as odd until years after she was gone. She would stop at a red light and reach into the Ziploc bag in her pocket. She created her own complicated meaning system for each color—red meant turn back, green…
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How It Looks Away from Here, a Ravenna Press poetry collection by Joan Fiset, reviewed by Robert Dunsdon
A girl, around eight or nine years old perhaps, and tightly wrapped up against the cold, stands motionless on a small trampoline. She got here having walked on duckboards across an uneven and muddy yard from what looks like a shabby barn. Who she is and what she represents, if anything, is anyone’s guess; she…
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