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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.

COMPANY MAN by Jeff Karr

August 23, 2023

The lord’s light is a fathomless null. Sometimes you’re afforded a glimpse and it’s a tunnel on the other side of which you crawl on the accordioned car’s ceiling.

SMOKE AND FISH by Uyen P. Dang

August 21, 2023

At first everyone blamed the smoke on the war, then the steel plant, and, finally, the water. But Ong Hai says it’s not water but grief at the bottom of the sea.