Author: Heavy Feather

Contributors’ Corner: Luke Wiget

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 Luke Wiget, whose story “An Instrument” appears in HFR 3.3. Luke Wiget is a writer and musician born and raised in Santa Cruz, California who lives in Brooklyn, New York.…
Crystal Eaters, a new novel by Shane Jones, reviewed by Michael Goroff

A few personal notes before I dive full-tilt into this review of Shane Jones’ new novel, Crystal Eaters, that will, hopefully, over the course of the review, become apparently non-self-serving and more edifying about the nature of this book: 1. The day I started reading Crystal Eaters, my cat was in the hospital with kidney…
Gabino Iglesias on The Number of Missing, a novel by Adam Berlin

September 11 is a date that will forever live in the memories of those who were alive when the Twin Towers crumbled. The devastation was felt around the world, but it touched New Yorkers in ways that only they can understand, especially if the tragedy affected them directly via the loss of a loved one.…
Contributors’ Corner: Britt Melewski

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 Britt Melewski, whose story/poem “Scharky” appears in HFR 3.3. Britt Melewski grew up in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. His poems have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Philadelphia Review of…
Chrono Trigger, nonfiction by Michael P. Williams, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt

My hat goes off to Michael P. Williams immediately, for it is nothing but ambitious to write on Chrono Trigger. For one thousand readers, one thousand Hamlets; for one thousand players, one thousand Cronos. Released by Squaresoft (now Square-Enix) on the Super Nintendo in 1995, the videogame is considered one of the best JRPGs. Essays…
The Holy Ghost People, a dramatic lyric by Joshua Young, reviewed by Merridawn Duckler

Plays are like frogs. They start life in a form that scarcely seems to resemble the final product. What whirls to life on a dynamic stage is usually begun flat on the page. And, as far as writing goes, written plays don’t get much respect. The Guardian’s theater critic Lyn Gardner thinks it’s the “brazenly…
Contributors’ Corner: Chelsea Laine Wells

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 Chelsea Laine Wells, whose story “We Sink Like Ships” appears in HFR 3.3. Chelsea Laine Wells is a graduate of the Columbia College of Chicago fiction department whose work…
Danny M. Hoey, Jr. on Box Cutters, a fiction chapbook by Samuel Snoek-Brown

In his debut chapbook, Samuel Snoek-Brown takes readers through the lives of characters who struggle with what it means to live in and make sense of a world that seems to be slipping from the very fingers by which they try to grasp it. In language that is poetic, evocative, and lean, Snoek-Brown has managed…
Whittling a New Face in the Dark, poetry by DJ Dolack, reviewed by Jordan Sanderson

“People quot(e) / when their empathy is down,” observes the speaker of “What They Want Me to Tell You.” Never resorting to “quotes” or platitudes, Whittling a New Face in the Dark exhibits a brutal empathy. The speakers of these poems stand just inside the thresholds of dark rooms and address us in measured statements…