Author: Heavy Feather
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Haunted Passages Short Story: “found this today” by Erin Lyndal Martin & Pris Sears
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“Strings Astray:” A Poem for Haunted Passages by Lindsay Donovan
You pitter on your bike across the boulevard, past the litter, the small dog jackets,and tour bus flyers. You bought your bike for LA cheap, it brakes properly and night signalsbut its not doing too hot. Too hot out in Venice, you pull up to the driveway, quiet, as you tryto choke down filmy, office…
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Poetry Review: Erica Bernheim Reads Mid/South Sonnets, an Anthology Edited by C.T. Salazar & Casie Dodd
“Tell me about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.” —William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Rather than attempting to locate what the South is or “simply” to define the form, C.T. Salazar & Casie Dodd’s anthology, Mid/South Sonnets, prioritizes description and…
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Haunted Passages Poetry: “Ode to the Beginning of Things Between Us” by Max Lasky
Love is a beetle in the brainsays my horoscope today, whichmakes me think of my wife’schildhood nickname, Beetle, a playon her middle name, Betul, Turkish for virgin, or pure, a nameshe abandoned by the wayside aftersplitting hearts with wedge and sledgehammer, the way experience accrues around firewoodlike dead leaves in the fenced in cornerof our…
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New Side A Flash Fiction: “Whereupon” by Jon Doughboy
Whereupon because I’ve always wanted to start a story with the word whereupon will arrive the story: let’s say it’s about a man and a woman and the man likes to sing, is compelled to sing because hearing his voice echoing in the world tells him he’s alive, little ditties of off-key affirmation resounding in…
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Poetry for Flavor Town USA: “Ode to Oil” by Sarah A. Etlinger
To the hot oil sizzling in the pan as I stand hereand make dinner, chicken cutlets, fish cakes, latkes. To the oil that burns and chars the panso I have to scrub it clean, scour black scars, and dump the remainsin an old coffee can kept under the sink like my mother did,to its scent…
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Fiction Review: Nick Stock & F. Tony Carusi Read Roy Goddard’s Morant
The teacher is a figure with whom we are all familiar. They are those who sacrifice, those who love, those who endure. In fact, we may say the teacher is precisely the vessel into which we pour our moral commitments for the world as we wish it to be, even as we increasingly fail to…
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Fiction Review by Catherine Parnell: “When We Are Known, or A Brief Natural History of Women by Sarah Freligh”
Every universe has its ruler, a tool that inches toward an unquestionable, crowning truth. Such is the case with Sarah Freligh’s A Brief Natural History of Women, her collection of flash fiction, some flash clocking in at a quarter of a page, others slightly longer, but all equally satisfying in their landings. If veritas is…
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New Side A Fiction: “Her Fight” by Andrea Marcusa
Her Fight After she got the news, Emily went home, sank into bed, and tried to figure out where all her fight had gone. Some of it went toward her super, Sal, of course, the corrupt, bribe-taking, slime ball. The one with the ski house upstate. Emily remembers confronting him in her flooded apartment, after her…
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