“History Repeats and Stories Become Complete”: FABULATIONS, minimalist short stories by José de Piérola, reviewed by Mark Crimmins

Fabulations, by José de Piérola. KERNPUNKT Press, October 2018. 121 pages. $14.99, paper. José de Pierola’s Fabulations is an impressive…

Poetry: “A Suitable Piece of Real Estate (As You Like It)” by W.E. Pierce

By the pine gap in these woods is a green door into the code We find it on…

What if I walked up to your front door again. What if, at the sight of me on the front…

PART THE THIRD From A Philosophy of the Indoors—The Beautiful On-Purpose and the Beautiful Accident: The waitress looks at…

this pit’s everything a mouth of sky Mud Witch dreams me in her teeth it all vibrates wrong when…

I ask her what he said. He her boyfriend. He her boyfriend, the bartender, the man who watches. He told…

PART THE SECOND From A Philosophy of the Indoors—Where I Lived, and What I Lived for: I went…

Part 1: Cecelia As a child I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t love my…

She sees a fire in the huge dark field to the left of the road we’re driving down. Do you…

“Look at it, Hastings. Not a building in sight. Not a restaurant, not a theatre, not an art gallery.…

Our Pool Party Bus Forever Days: Road Stories, by David James Keaton. Red Room Press, October 2018. 326 pages. $14.95,…

I’ve taken a pause on my walk, distracted with all the things I’m carrying: my messenger bag, which keeps…