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Museum of Stones, a novel by Lynn Lurie, reviewed by Christina Ghent

In the novel Museum of Stones, we follow an unnamed narrator through the journey of what motherhood is really like. And in her third work, Lynn Lurie masterfully depicts this chaotic, frightening, loving, and sometimes neurotic life of being a mother to an extraordinary son. Through the unnamed narrator, Lurie brings us into the mind…
Mouth Trap, a prose poetry collection by Rebbecca Brown, reviewed by Gabriel Welsch

Rebbecca Brown’s collection of prose poems is the second book from a writer whose debut was the novel They Become Her. A novelist working in prose poetry risks the damning-with-faint-praise descriptor of someone whose poetry reads like that of a prose stylist’s. Tarring these poems with that brush would be very hard to do. The…
Casey Smith Reviews Claiming a Body, a debut fiction collection by Amanda Marbais

Amanda Marbais’ most recent collection, Claiming a Body, is comprised of eleven short stories, each of which masterfully balances dark humor and human tragedy to create narratives that are buzzing with tension. Whether she is writing about shady drug deals, white collar crime, or the accidental death of a cat named Sparkles, the plots of…
Three Princess Poems by Frances Donovan

What Snow White Swallows ginger snaps /a matchstick square pizza in the school cafeteriaher body spreading in the mirror / grotesque the white cheek of a poison applethe red cheek of a poison apple cookies from the keebler elvesgrow up fast /her fault her fault her fault arnold whole wheat bread /sweet bliss of chocolate…
Em Mingus: “Confession,” new poetry for Haunted Passages

I don’t know where to startOr where you want me to startBut I’m hereAnd I’m tryingAnd I’m sorryI don’t remember much of last nightMaybe I had too much to drinkWe all make mistakes, right?I remember there was a lump in my throatAnd I remember being scared to speakAll the windows were shut and the air…
Susan Nordmark: “Last Ghosts,” two flash fictions for Haunted Passages

Last It’s not even a rag. It would be a good idea to visit. What the doctor cooked up is not at all sustainable, I’m wanting to say. The hip replacement seemed to go well. I relied on it for a long time. We had a dull finish and dents from inappropriate handling, and some significant splitting. Eventually I…
Zuri Etoshia Anderson on Dollhouse Masquerade, a poetry collection by Samuel E. Cole

I contemplated about how to open up my review about Dollhouse Masquerade, a collection of poetry by Samuel E. Cole. “Man, what witty or strong hook can I think up to have people read this book?” I thought to myself for at least an hour. But then I realized: I can’t describe it as one…
“#MeToo All Over Again”: Gay Degani Interviews Jacqueline Doyle, Author of The Missing Girl

Every story in this short collection, The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), is strong, evocative, and terrifying. Jacqueline Doyle gives us a prism: eight stories with eight different approaches on the continuing issue of misappropriate, dangerous, and often deadly behavior toward women. Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl won the Black River Chapbook Competition at Black…
Two Poems by Julia Cohen

Passover Lullaby for Elijah, April 19 2019 / Elegy for Chabad of Poway SynagogueApril 27 2019 A sinkhole of humansA marquee of humansA nomad of humansA lake of humansA smuggle of humansA kibbutz of humansA pollen of humansA grenade of humansA hammock of humansA Shirley Temple of humansA bloviation of humansAn occupation of humansA foliage…