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X-R-A-Y SPECS: All-American Murder

September 22, 2023

All-American Murder isn’t bad, but it’s almost an extraterrestrial product, a movie made for humans by something that has no relationship to the physical universe.

THE CARRIAGE ROOM by Mary Ann McGuigan

September 20, 2023

He returned home silent, even more sullen. I asked him about Mrs. Marra once, but he looked at me as if all memories, good or bad, had been erased.

NO EXIT NEEDED: A Review of Danny the Ambulance

September 15, 2023

If the Jury Room is supposed to be some kind of hell, we should all be so lucky to wind up in a hell like this.

JACKFRUIT by Gwen E. Kirby

September 13, 2023

Now that your precious jackfruit is out in the world, latch the angel onto your body and let nature take its course. She held her jackfruit to her breast, to her arms, her neck, rubbed it against herself until she was raw.

MORE WRITERS SHOULD JUST BE DOING THIS FOR FUN: An Interview with Tyler Dempsey

September 8, 2023

Everyone believes there’s something more out there. And if we were just braver, had more time/money/whatever, we’d Don Quixote it up.

SWEETNESS by Tina Kimbrell

September 6, 2023

On the morning that she died, I don’t think I knew that it was the day that we would stop waiting. We were just going to her bedside, as we did. As we had done for days. Suspended in that grief fog, gritty and spinning.

SARAN WRAP MAGIC: An Interview with Amy Cipolla Barnes

September 1, 2023

Where neighbors handed warm zucchini bread over fences, a 10-year-old drove me around a farm in a rusty truck, and I most likely met a serial killer.

HOBBIES by Robbie Herbst

August 30, 2023

She’d say that it’s not enough for a man to create a life; he must sustain it. Protect it. Sufficiency means safety. It means contingencies. It means insurance.

IF SHE WERE AN ANIMAL by Cameron Darc

August 28, 2023

He fondles a piece of charcoal and looks at me before touching the paper. The line makes a limp imitation of a spine. A nose appears.

ELAINE SUN, KRAMER MOON, GEORGE RISING: An Interview with Donald Quist

August 25, 2023

I'm still thinking through and discovering all Seinfeld has, and will, teach me about creative writing, particularly poetic movement, and/or MacGuffins as a narrative technique.