Author: Heavy Feather
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Lucy Zhang: “Raising Wings,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist
It happened slowly at first. Slits tracing shoulder blades down a pale canvas back, blood trickling like paint from an over-saturated watercolor brush. Feathers and bone and cartilage poking their way through the epidermis. At some point, my over-sized green eagle sweater could no longer hide the protrusions. I said my stomach hurt, I had…
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“Resonance Is a Very Personal Thing”: Hillary Leftwich Chats with Teague von Bohlen, author of the flash fiction collection Flatland
Teague von Bohlen is a Midwestern man at heart, and his latest collection, Flatland, represents, both verbally as well as visually, the heartbreak, trauma, and desolation that embody the Midwest region where von Bohlen was born and raised. A Colorado Book Award winner, professor, and editor, von Bohlen and I had a week-long email conversation…
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Noreen Hernandez on Tina May Hall’s debut novel The Snow Collectors from Dzanc Books
Tina May Hall has created a work of storytelling art in The Snow Collectors by weaving the genres of gothic mystery/ romance, the atmosphere of a lyrical poem, and a warning of apocalyptic environmental collapse. The first chapter is divided into chunks that describe Henna’s, the main character’s, background. These sections move abruptly between her…
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“Ten Songs, the Sound of Ambient Noise, and the Clanking of Chains”: A Playlist by Andrew Rihn
My book Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights has the honor of being the first book released through Press 53’s new Immersion Poetry Series. The series aims to highlight writing that immerses its readers in the unfamiliar, providing entrance to subcultures, niches, and other unconventional spaces. The series editor, Christopher Forrest, likens the Series to…
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Cassandra Luca Reviews Jonathan Blum’s short story collection The Usual Uncertainties: “A richly detailed, mixed (and eyebrow-furrowing) bag”
Jonathan Blum’s short story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, is cohesive in that each story showcases his uncanny observations; a brief paragraph sketch of one character is enough to reveal their essence. Blum can do this for houses too: “The mossy gables, the exalted peeling cornices and pale shingled walls, the quiet inclining street near the…
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“The Academic Agenda,” a satirical story by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
How much did you learn in school? There are hours when the subjectivity of days and nights overwhelms you. To the point that your mind runs smack dab against the Scylla and the Charybdis of the past. The past? And what the hell is it? And when the hell was it? You might sit up…
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Haunted Passages Fiction by Alexa T. Dodd: “His or Yours”
When you come home from work, the living room is littered with a grease-tattooed pizza box and dented cans of beer from your husband’s favorite local brewery. You find him in the bedroom, on his laptop, playing a game. Lasers and explosions emanate, muffled, from the tiny speakers. A hundred seams knit the center of…
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The Miracles, the third poetry collection by Amy Lemmon, reviewed by Leonard A. Temme
Amy Lemmon’s new book of poems, The Miracles, dedicated to her two children—her two miracles—tells the story of a smart, accomplished woman struggling with grief and loss in today’s urbane world. The book is in five sections: Prelude, Fugue, Riff – A, Riff – B, and Coda, terms that imply that music is important to…
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You Might Forget the Sky Was Ever Blue, short stories by Michael Chin, reviewed by Emily Webber
The characters in Michael Chin’s debut short story collection, You Might Forget the Sky Was Ever Blue, are figuring out how to be in the world with others and themselves. Many of these characters’ lives are full of trauma and turmoil and the best they hope for is easier times in the future. Chin’s stories…
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