Tag: Issue 2

  • Congratulations to Grant Gerald Miller

    We want to extend a huge congratulations to writer Grant Gerald Miller whose short story “We Should Have Named Him”  (published in our first issue) was selected by Robert Olen Butler to be included in the anthology The Best Small Fictions 2015. We’re so proud!

  • Makenzie Barron Murray

  • An Interview with Adam Jernigan

    Where did the idea for ‘Ward’ stem from? It started with the line “I’m the one killed them kids,” which just came into my mind and stayed there until I wrote the story that went with it. I’ve had other stories begin that way, but this one at least had plenty going on in that…

  • An Interview with Keija Parssinen

    Keija Parssinen’s fiction often explores issues of control within families, and “Godly Bodies,” featured in our Spring 2015 issue, is no exception. In the story, Brin Lambert’s conflation of weight-loss aspirations with religion ultimately develops into a lucrative obsession that alienates her from her husband and her adolescent daughter. Similarly, Parssinen’s dynamic new novel, The…

  • COME BACK TO ME

    Scene: A room with glass panels on one side and a door. Shelves of books cover the back and sidewalls. In the foreground, a girl in her early- to mid-twenties sits in a leather armchair. In her lap is an open book. She is lit softly by a light from above. To the back right…

  • Constellation

    Who is my mom’s secret first husband to me? No more a landscape feature than the Zuiderzee. What can I say? I caved when asked for a family history. They are to me a collective mystery, a game that is a book in which we all write results that are as strange to us as…

  • The Sail

    I imagine my hair in a different era. Coal-strewn and tobacco scented.

  • Trash Day at the Park

    Bottles full of exhales landed drunk on their sides.

  • The Indian Woman Reading on the Bus

    I’ll take, always, a gander at the beautiful: this time at the long black hair, the short black skirt, the razor thin pantyhose and the black high heels.