“The Old Reactor Keeps Chugging”: A Reflection on the Writings of David Ohle by Daniel J. Cecil

1. Throughout his entire life, my grandfather has worked and lived as a farmer. Years of shuffling feet, skinny legs … More

The Luminol Reels, fiction by Laura Ellen Joyce, reviewed by James R. Gapinski

The stories in Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels read like a series of inverse flashbulbs. There’s encroaching dark matter … More

It is not without merit that David Ohle’s last name rhymes with “holy.” For all intents and purposes, Ohle is … More

How do we write about death? Explain the inexplicable without sounding overwrought, cliché, false? Perhaps we don’t. Perhaps we avoid … More

I. On the surface, Travel Notes by Stanley Crawford is glib satire, in line with Catch-22 or Vonnegut’s Slapstick. The novel … More

Deep Ellum, by Brandon Hobson, follows our twenty-something-year-old narrator, Gideon, through the streets of Deep Ellum, a gloomy district in … More

Elizabeth Mikesch is a prose stylist to shout about. Her debut collection Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press) is a breathtaking … More