Author: Heavy Feather

New Poetry: “To Infinity and Beyond” by Joel Anthony Harris

I have a running sore on my chest, a pockmarked full moon that waxes radiant in inconsolable bereavement. I bear it as a nursery swaddled in shade cloth to ditch the sun. It is my silent wound. My silent night. A silence etched into my being as a sinkhole without the finality of rocks or…
New Fiction for Haunted Passages: “Three Magi (Or Three Lost Men)” by Garrett Crowe

I. A bottle opener in the shape of a mystic—I purchased it at an antiquary that specialized in items made between the 50s and 70s. On a nail, the mystic hung upside down, legs crossed, praying with hands at his heart. It was molded in brass. I had to have it. It reminded me of…
Haunted Passages: Three Microfictions by Addison Zeller

The Dinosaurafter Augusto Monterroso The tip of the tail (a barb almost, dripping with rainwater) gleams despite the intervening clouds and leaves as sunlight plays on its back, continuing, while the storm passes on, along its skin and spine, and arcs like the rainbow that has already begun to form, until it pools in the…
Fiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads Zeeva Bukai’s Novel The Anatomy of Exile

Zeeva Bukai’s debut novel, The Anatomy of Exile, follows the Abadi family, who in the wake of the 1967 Israeli Six-Day War, moves to America, where the complicated foreign relations of their home country continue to influence their daily lives. This work feels resoundingly timely in this moment of unspeakable violence, but it also reminds…
Poetry: Three Bad Survivors by Kristin Lueke

the idiot imagines the last year as her last on earth (at last) i watched my dog disintegrate, drank more water than god.thought about divorce but didn’t. get divorced i mean. imaginedwhat it would be like to move a sofa. i didn’t move a sofa.didn’t do a single puzzle i didn’t want to do. i…
New Side A Short Story: “In Cahoots” by Terese Svoboda

In Cahoots My son looked at his plate and looked at the dog and said he needed to go. I was still serving myself, my wrist flicking out sauce from a pot with a spoon. I sighed, placed my half-filled plate on the table, and took his hand in mine. After finding the key that…
Book Review: Matt Martinson Reads Russell Persson’s Mix of Fiction + Essays These Threads Who Lead to Bramble

A standard element of any book review is to partially summarize a book without giving too much away, to give a sense of what others will find without telling them everything about that book. But how does one do such a thing for Russell Person’s These Threads Who Lead to Bramble, where the “sense”—the feelings,…
“Toward an Indeterminate Future”: Eric Tyler Benick on Jennifer Quartararo’s Memoir An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value

“A link exists between the deficiency of our blood and our embarrassment in duration,” the Romanian philosopher and aphorist Emil Cioran says in All Gall is Divided. He continues, “Don’t our conscious states derive from the discoloration of our desires?” In Jennifer Quartararo’s debut An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value, the question of anemia, both…
“Alas, Heroic Yorick”: Nicole Yurcaba Reads Timothy Schaffert’s Novel The Titanic Survivors Book Club

The tragedy of the RMS Titanic, which met its fate in the North Atlantic’s icy waters on April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage, continues to awe, intrigue, and fascinate the general public. Modern-day disasters like the Titan submersible implosion not only renew interest in the infamous ship’s brief existence, they also reignite conversations about…