I don’t know where to start Or where you want me to start But I’m here And I’m trying…
Susan Nordmark: “Last Ghosts,” two flash fictions
Last It’s not even a rag. It would be a good idea to visit. What the doctor cooked…
Zuri Etoshia Anderson on DOLLHOUSE MASQUERADE, a poetry collection by Samuel E. Cole
Dollhouse Masquerade, by Samuel E. Cole. Adelaide, Australia: Truth Serum Press, May 2018. 162 pages. $13.00, paper. I contemplated about…
#MeToo All Over Again: Gay Degani Interviews Jacqueline Doyle, Author of THE MISSING GIRL
Every story in this short collection, The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), is strong, evocative, and terrifying. Jacqueline Doyle gives us…
Two Poems by Julia Cohen
Passover Lullaby for Elijah, April 19 2019 / Elegy for Chabad of Poway Synagogue April 27 2019 A sinkhole of…
THE BOOK OF THE LAST WORD, a novel by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Patrick Parks
The Book of the Last Word, by Jesi Bender. Whisk(e)y Tit, May 2019. $14.00, paper. In the prologue to Jesi…
Lyric Essay: “Who Killed the Nyan Cat?” by Jill M. Talbot
I stare at the barbed wire at the top of the fence. All I want to do is to…
Poetry: “The world in which I open up google earth and my dead mother is feeding the horses.” by Megan Merchant
I imagined it differently. The paddock flooded. The donkey and sheep a fence over, cuddled under the mare. I…
Hannah Jackson Reviews Wendy J. Fox’s latest novel IF THE ICE HAD HELD
If the Ice Had Held, by Wendy J. Fox. Santa Fe, New Mexico: SFWP, May 2019. 260 pages. $15.95, paper.…
TEMPER CA, a novella by Paul Skenazy, reviewed by Hayley Neiling
Temper CA, by Paul Skenazy. Miami, Ohio: Miami University Press, January 2019. 260 pages. $15.00, paper. With the death of…
“Out Goes the Blot,” new poetry by David Kruger
I sit at the free clinic like a tailor stitching a hidden nest in a jacket. After the hat…
“How Hazel Tried to Kill the One Good Thing,” an excerpt from the novel HAZEL by David Huddle
Hazel never completely moved into Forrest’s apartment. She kept paying her rent in graduate housing, but she left more…
