Tag: Caketrain Journal and Press

  • Lake of Earth, by William VanDenBerg

    Lake of Earth, by William VanDenBerg

    The cover image of Lake of Earth shows a gemstone—its surface angled, smooth, brilliant—that seems to contain an inner light, something Machen might have imagined as harboring a human soul. This gemstone can also be seen as being representative of VanDenBerg’s crystal-clear, lean prose. Take, for example, this brief excerpt from the story “Wife of…

  • Collected Alex, a novella by A.T. Grant, reviewed by Matt Weinkam

    Collected Alex, a novella by A.T. Grant, reviewed by Matt Weinkam

    IIn part one of A.T. Grant’s three-part novella Collected Alex (winner of the 2012 Caketrain Chapbook Competition) a boy named Alex receives a dead body from his parents for his eighth birthday. “My parents held each other and watched as I inspected it. They were so excited,” Alex tells us. “What am I supposed to…