Author: Heavy Feather

“The Last Bullet,” a comic by Andrew Bourelle & Edward Bourelle

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Andrew Bourelle is the author of the novel Heavy Metal. His short stories have been published widely in literary magazines and fiction anthologies including The Best American Mystery Stories. Edward Bourelle has worked more than twenty years in commercial art as a graphic designer, illustrator, cartographer, and art director. Currently he is…
Fiction-screenplay Hybrid: “Game in the Sand” by Joe Sacksteder

GAME IN THE SAND They have finished securing Karl to the hood of the Chevy using the collected belts of everyone involved in production. Karl is unsure of many things. If his reflection will be visible in the windshield. If it will be obvious how slowly they’re driving the truck. If he can slip through…
“Lisa Freeman’s Work Makes Me Angry; Or, The Children’s Crusade”: Lisa Freeman Catalog Essay for January 2018 Show by Jordan A. Rothacker

Lisa Freeman is an artist based in Athens, Georgia, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1965. She has worked in the medium of painting, but recently her art has shifted to a focus on assemblage art using found objects. Drawn to discarded objects and photographs, Freeman explores the mystery of the forgotten, allowing the…
“An Instrument,” fiction by Luke Wiget

It doesn’t matter anymore because organ music has gone the way of, well, organ music. But I remember when I was a kid someone stole the pipes to the Presbyterian Church’s organ to sell as scrap metal. There were two men. Both were wearing coveralls so the church secretary trusted them. The workmen told her…
“The Inner Eye Tattooed,” a poem by Marc Vincenz

(1) Looking in like a snail, my nose crawls against glass. How the view alters up close and the breath a mountainous fog against matter’s impermeable will. Isn’t this the color of pure silence— that rainbowed tint when night swallows reflections? (2) In the nothingness of the primordial, words written before words are known and…
“Christopher Ke’alohapauole Akana: A Life,” fiction by Jonathan Callahan

When I first set out to write the Life, I was twenty-six years old, my subject at the time therefore just approaching the twenty-seventh anniversary of his expulsion from the womb. Yet nearly four fruitless years had passed by the time I intend to revisit in these notes; I was now twenty-nine, and had arrived…
My Shadow Book by Maawaam, edited by Jordan A. Rothacker, reviewed by Jarrod Campbell

The purpose of a book can be something different from one person to the next. A fellow writer once told me that for him, a book can be a temporary escape from the drudgery of the real world. That was more important to him than delivering a message; provide diversion for one person and you…
“Three Photos: Urbanity” by Peter Witte

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Makeshift Memorial Rain Riding Two Men and a Mattress Peter Witte is a writer and visual artist. His work has been featured in a variety of literary magazines and journals including The Sun, The Threepenny Review, Tin House Online, Hobart Online, and The Rumpus. He teaches writing at the University of Maryland.…
Six Essays from Self-Erasing Portrait by Joe Hall

Smoker’s Lounge Take the inscrutable diners and staff behind the plate glass of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.” Take the plate glass and bury it deep in the street-like incandescent night of a factory. Replace the counters with folding tables. Make everyone older. Give each one a newspaper and a cigarette to pull on then smudge the…