Tag: Troy James Weaver

  • Fiction: An Excerpt from Visions by Troy James Weaver

    Fiction: An Excerpt from Visions by Troy James Weaver

    That day, the first day, she didn’t believe me, and it would be another ten years before she finally would—and then only after she was dead. I knew she’d be in the kitchen. She was always in the kitchen. She was cooking grits in a small pot, and had the radio turned up, listening to…

  • WITCHITA STORIES, by Troy James Weaver

    WITCHITA STORIES, by Troy James Weaver

    Troy James Weaver’s collection Witchita Stories takes us back to our childhood, our hardest years, and the struggles that come along with it. These short short stories give us glimpses into the life of the narrator and his relationships with his brother and parents—and his fear of becoming just like them. Weaver revamps the coming of…

  • The Uncomfortably Ugly, the Stupidly Human, and the Beauty of the Mundane: A Review of Robert Vaughan’s ADDICTS & BASEMENTS

    The Uncomfortably Ugly, the Stupidly Human, and the Beauty of the Mundane: A Review of Robert Vaughan’s ADDICTS & BASEMENTS

    Robert Vaughan’s Addicts & Basements is a slim volume of flash fiction and poetry coming in at just under one hundred fifty pages. I’m not going to lie, that knowledge alone led me into some kind of garnered skepticism, as usually these types of collections are relegated to the I-have-all-this-shit-lying-around-might-as-well-make-a-book-of-it category. That’s not the case with…