Author: Heavy Feather

Contributors’ Corner: Ace Boggess

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Ace Boggess, whose poems appear in 2.2 and HFR 3.3 (read) and story, with Jessica Lynn Hall, “You Shouldn’t Have Done It,” appears in 3.1. Can you share a…
Tribute, a fragmentary narrative by Anne Germanacos, reviewed by Bayard Godsave

There is a certain type of writing which asks us to engage with it so that the reader must become an active participant. The reader gives over and becomes writer as well. Call it a kind of collaborative reading, or call it, as Roland Barthes did, a writerly text. Tribute by Anne Germanacos is the…
Motherfucking Sharks, a novel by Brian Allen Carr, reviewed by Brett Beach

A stranger comes to town. We know this story, don’t we? He warns of approaching danger, which the townspeople ignore. And because we are familiar with this story, we know the tale will not have a happy ending for most. The stranger—crazy or haunted, ill and raving—is right. Brian Allen Carr’s Motherfucking Sharks is a…
Commercial Fiction, stories by Dave Housley, reviewed by Nicholas Grider

Dave Housley’s Commercial Fiction is exactly what the title suggests, in two senses of the term. First, it’s literally short fiction that curls itself around standard network TV commercials, with anything from Taco Bell to Cialis given the brief 3D space of psychologically complex characters, many of whom, beneath the plywood façade of the commercial,…
Praying Drunk, stories by Kyle Minor, reviewed by Jeremy Hauck

In Praying Drunk, his second book following In the Devil’s Territory (Dzanc Books, 2008), Kyle Minor forays beyond the realm of literary realist fiction and into conceptual work even as he makes hay from the material that literary fiction has monopolized: suicide, cancer/terminal illness, lives changed irrevocably by events lasting only seconds, travel to the…
Contributors’ Corner: Matt Sailor

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Matt Sailor, whose story “Crisis on Infinite Earths” appears in 3.2. Can you share a moment that has shaped you as a writer (or continues to)? Early in…
Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck, rejection letters by Lee Klein, reviewed by Nichole L. Reber

Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck collects a decade’s worth of pithy, humorous rejection letters sent to writers who hoped to publish in Lee Klein’s self-proclaimed “semi-literary” online journal, Eyeshot. This is not the stuff of “We appreciate the opportunity to read your work, but we’ve decided not to publish …” No, these rejections are…
Housebound, a novel by Elizabeth Gentry, reviewed by Louise Henrich

Elizabeth Gentry’s Housebound crystallizes a moment of irrevocable change within a family. When Housebound opens, Maggie, the eldest daughter in a large, sheltered family, decides to leave her family home to search for work in the city: Leaving home felt like tunneling out of a snow that had kept everyone housebound so long they had…
Contributors’ Corner: Timmy Reed

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Timmy Reed, whose stories “The Spider’s Eggs” and “Minutes from Meeting of Afterdeath Board of Directors” appear in 2.1 and 3.2. Timmy Reed is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland.…