Heliotrope Where one finds that moody is like a word or like the register in which the sky loosens its…
“Halloween Memories: The Dark,” a short memoir by Scott Cole, author of TRIPLE AXE
I was twelve. We had just moved to a new town that August, and I hadn’t yet made any…
Craft Essay: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN author Paul Michael Anderson
I want to talk about the limitless possibilities of what horror is and what horror can do. I want…
“Election Night, Missouri, 2016,” a flash essay by Brad Aaron Modlin
All day, rats had bolted through my body. I spilt my coffee. I couldn’t hold a pen. To an old…
Flash Fiction: “The Cable Company” by DARKANSAS author Jarret Middleton
A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of…
Five Poems by Esteban Rodriguez
Landscape with tree and leg Then you come across a tree, and hanging from its branch you find a…
Fiction: “The Lawn Jockey” by Mary T. Miller
I’d been thinking about that swimming hole for nearly half a year, since the middle of winter. I first saw…
“Attend the Way,” short fiction by Theodore Wheeler
It’s because he has a train to catch that Rodney leaves his room after suppertime. He puts on dress shoes…
“Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You”: A Critical Analysis of APOSTLE, the 2018 Netflix orginal film directed by Gareth Evans
Warning: Spoilers abound!
THE DOGS OF DETROIT, Brad Felver’s debut short story collection, reviewed by Michael A. Ferro
The Dogs of Detroit, by Brad Felver. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2018. 200 pages. $21.95, hardcover. If…
Three Poems by Jeremy Behreandt
A Third Place The bell tower prescribed an auditory space that corresponded to a particular notion of territoriality, one obsessed…
WHILE YOU WERE GONE, a novel by Sybil Baker, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
While You Were Gone, by Sybil Baker. C&R Press, June 2018. 294 pages. $18.00, paper. While You Were Gone is…
