Dystopian fiction is so hot right now. Hot like teen vampires before it. And child wizards before that. Hot like…
“Ghost Fingers,” a Haunted Passages short story by Justin Carter
Ghost Fingers Sometime in the 1940s, a school bus in Horton, Texas, was hit by a train after stalling on…
Book Review: “The Company of Strangers, Jen Michalski’s Collection of Tiny Heartbreaks and Keen Hopes” by Rosalia Scalia
Jen Michalski’s newest book, The Company of Strangers, gives us 194 pages of tiny heartbreaks and keen hopes. In a…
“The Harmonic Structure of a Life”: Ryan Nowlin Reviews The Unwanted Sounds, a poetry collection by Lorraine Lupo
Writing letters to Lorraine Lupo over a period of three years was an extension of our friendship. Also, we engaged…
Zachary Kocanda Reviews Kevin Maloney’s Novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim
How far would you go to live the life you imagined for yourself when you were young and anything was…
“[UNTITLED LOVE SONG],” an acrostic poem by Jess Yuan
[UNTITLED LOVE SONG] Favorite observer, how youUndulate between a blue loud emptiness and thisCeiling which shelters andKeeps the perimeter defined…
Haunted Passages Digital Collage: “The Frenzy of an Indispensable Hallucination” by Bill Wolak
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. The Frenzy of an Indispensable Hallucination Bill Wolak has just published his…
The Future: “The Buddha Who Couldn’t Feel & The Fish on the Floor,” a flash by Emily Lu
The Buddha Who Couldn’t Feel & The Fish on the Floor You were the buddha who couldn’t feel. They carved…
“And Then What”: A Review of Julia Guez’s The Certain Body by Eric David Helms
“The dark is very dark,” Guez writes in “Still Life When All Our Symptoms Seem to Have Symptoms of Their…
Short Fiction: “Adrift” by Max Wheeler
Adrift Like so much in Hassan’s long life, this transition was something done to him, not by him. My mom…
Two Poems by Julian Mithra
Marooned by Organs[1] hooee bighorn or prongbucki’m fat for backs hunched against arctic. Beacham’s offcollecting buffalo pies to hold back toothache…
“An Absence You Recognize”: A Prose Poem by Radha Kai Zan
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. An Absence You Recognize Radha Kai Zan creates stories across different mediums.…
Review: Patrick Parks on Man in a Cage, a novel by Patrick Nevins
In novels about Africa, the continent often serves as a moral landscape where imperialistic intruders degrade, defile, and attempt to…
Don’t Look at Me, a new novel by Charles Holdefer, reviewed by Jonathan Harrington
Charles Holdefer has lived in Europe for over forty years, mostly in France and Belgium, yet his fiction most often…
Side A Visual Poetry: “bye, see you soon” by Jonathan Memmert
bye, see you soon bye,see yousoon maybebefore you knowit one of us will run across each others pathsanother day another…