Author: Heavy Feather
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“Secret Rewards” Craft Essay: Jolene McIlwain on Writing PTSD in Fiction
You don’t want to think it’s your heart. You want to think it’s a pulled muscle, pinched nerve, or bad posture because you’ve always forgotten and slouched. But you agree to the stress test because if it is your heart, this is an early find. You’re only forty-seven. There’s time to repair. It’s been happening…
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“Ashenfolk”: William Lessard Interviews Joseph Mosconi + 6 Exclusive Poems
Joseph Mosconi is a writer, editor, and curator based in Los Angeles. A former Google computational linguist, he is the executive director of the Poetic Research Bureau (PRB), a hybrid arts space that hosts weekly readings, performances, and films by today’s most progressive poets and artists. Mosconi is also a co-founder and programmer at 2220…
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Fiction Review: Dave Fitzgerald Reads Agustin Maes’ Newborn
“It’s about a dead baby.” This is what author Agustin Maes will reliably answer if you ask him about his book Newborn. Soft-spoken, and humble nearly to the point of bashfulness (this despite being a runner-up for the Paris Literary Prize his first time out the gate), he doesn’t always seem to grasp the weight…
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Foundations, a new novel by Abigail Stewart, reviewed by Hayli May Cox
In three dazzling parts, Abigail Stewart’s Foundations follows a trio of women across time, all of them connected by a single Dallas house. Bunny is a housewife who longs for genuine connection and friendship outside of the oppressive suburban life she’s found herself moored to. Jessica is an actress fleeing LA to find something else,…
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Side A Material Collaboration: “Sleep Takes More and More of Us” by Philip Lindsey & Matt McBride
Sleep Takes More and More of Us Mini-interview with Philip Lindsey & Matt McBride HFR: Can you share a moment that has shaped you as collaborators (or continues to)? PL: Matt and I met in my studio one evening over a couple of beers to talk about ideas, art, and a way into the project.…
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Poetry: “Ode to Broken Birthdays and an Empty High Noon Can” by Samantha Cross
I don’t know if it was the combined birthday partiesWith the Daytona 500 for Alex and me as children,Or being told to shut up when I playedMy saxophone that fateful night in sixth grade.Maybe it was the standardized testing that took placeThe first week of March in Connecticut,Where the governorFailed to recognize the importanceOf in-class…
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This Rancid Mill, an Alex Damage novel by Kyle Decker, reviewed by Zachary Kocanda
The main character of Kyle Decker’s novel This Rancid Mill doesn’t fit the bill of a typical detective. Maybe it’s the three-inch-high blue mohawk. Or the Dead Kennedys patch on his leather jacket. Or the one-liners like: “It took me the span of a Dee Dee Ramone count-off to decide she was my kind of…
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“Confetti Corrupted”: John Trefry’s 2015 fourth person, disincorporating text Thy Decay Thou Seest by Thy Desire, reviewed by Matthew Kinlin
Thy Decay Thou Seest by Thy Desire, a title both seductive and confounding, is the second work of John Trefry, released on Inside the Castle in 2015; the independent press he founded and named after Kafka’s final novel. Almost a decade later and the work demonstrates even more so, as described by writer Rachael de…
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“pod”: Recorded Transmissions from The Future by Andrew Brenza
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Over a period of several months in the winter of 2022, a nameless entity, via manipulations of entangled particles across time, or pods, as the entity referred to them, transmitted an expressive model for the development of an eternally sustainable utopian consciousness into the plastic architecture of my…
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