“A Scream in the Ear from a Passing Car”: Dustin Cole on IN SINGING, HE COMPOSED A SONG, a new novella by Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart’s newly released experimental novella is set in late 1990s Prince George, British Columbia, during the chilly month of … More

“A Veiling and Unveiling and Veiling Again”: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheffield by Marcus Pactor

Elisabeth Sheffield is the sort of writer most writers only hope to become: a ventriloquist offering up voice after voice. … More

I am standing in the backyard in front of the shed. My brother is at the kitchen window, moths circling … More

—for Carrie On our way to the emergency room, we realize it is the twelfth day in a row of … More

Two weeks after my father dies in a freak accident, a dramatic fall while trimming fruit trees in his yard, … More

I’m picking lemons from the lemon tree beside the back porch of a man I met a week ago at … More

Bombs in Dogs My ex Shelly and her new husband are moving out of town, a little over an hour’s … More

He wakes up, gets his cellphone off the night table and opens it to look at the time. 3:02. He’s … More

The dad arrived, as dads are known to do, in a large red SUV that was partly covered in mud … More

My children are cruel and look like goblins. Every day they take something away from me and I don’t ask … More

I.The Master Bedroom Not the heart of the House, but its crimson mouth. The undone belt droops like a skein of … More

Fragments in Color 1 WHEN A KID I KEPT running away from home to see if Mama still wanted me. … More