Tag: Rusty Barnes

  • Two Poems by Rusty Barnes

    Two Poems by Rusty Barnes

    Date Night at Fuddruckers, Saugus MAYear of Our Lord, 2018 we have no imagination,my wife and I,so we end up here, nestled alongside Route 1,causeway to the NorthShore. on the menuthe biggest effing burgerthey have a pound of meat dressedout in cheese,with a great stack of onion. my wife in all things (almost)moderates herself with…

  • Reckoning, a novel by Rusty Barnes, reviewed by Dan Townsend

    Reckoning, a novel by Rusty Barnes, reviewed by Dan Townsend

    Rusty Barnes’s first novel, Reckoning, is the story of Richard, a fourteen-year-old country boy, who finds a woman naked and left for dead in the woods. Through this woman, Misty, Richard accesses the dark side of the small farming town where he lives. Motivated by teenage curiosity, hormones, and a fragile sense of down-home morality,…