Read More: A brief interview with Brad Rose Tonight, I Think I’ll Drive the Mail Truck Home Yesterday, I was busy sleeping at work, when I woke up wearing radio waves. It was touch and go for a while, until Smitty said it was lunchtime. When I got outside, I remembered that trees are smarter […]
Read More: A brief interview with Patrick St. Amand The woman and man blubbered into each other. Derek sat on the other side of the table. He longed for the bathroom and the opportunity to vomit. He had almost had them filling out the last piece of paper work. But then they started crying again. […]
Read More: A brief interview with Kate Osana Simonian No romance. That was Tracey’s first condition, but she’d given her parents a whole list before agreeing to join them on their holiday in France. No Paris. No chocolate shops, chocolate was romantic. No charming cobbled alleyways, where she could imagine—it had only been six months—Brandon […]
Read More: A brief interview with Leland James At the Nursing Home —an old man vacant by the window Hold me occasionally for the light is fading and I can no longer see the hills that once rose there, brown hills, sand, sand. I see the color, like the brown shoulders of a girl I […]
Read More: A brief interview with Jen Fawkes Mickey’s been on Percocet three months; he’s been on the case one hour; he’s been a PI twenty-nine years. She answers the door in a pair of lavender stretch pants and a patterned silk blouse that transports him instantly to the shore. Mickey sees waves. Spurts of […]
Read More: A brief interview with Marlene Olin The signs flew at him like billboards on a highway. He’d look at clouds and see the womanly curves of a guitar. The soap scum in the shower, the milk in his coffee, the swirl of paint in a freshly opened can all bore the same […]
Read More: A brief interview with Alan Hill The Night of My Conception It was during Beatlemania, my parents already old pre rock n roll, pre sex caught in the leg snare of a long finished war in the eye line, of the teen Canadian pilots that they had watched as children folding their Spitfires […]
Read More: A Short Interview with Bernard Grant Sam hissed smoke into low fog, a gray thickness obscuring the street beyond the driveway. It was a quiet morning, aside from Sam’s boasts and the cars swishing by the road outside our neighborhood. He was proud of himself, smoking his last cigarette. When I told people […]
Issue 16 Poetry: A Girl Sings Into A Well, For a Moment, and Sending a Book to a Boy by Sara Ryan Fiction: The Pugilist by Jordan Farmer Poetry: Far Village and Van Gogh by Charles Kell Poetry: Marriage, Women Doctors, and Georgia O’Keefe by Carole Stone Visual Arts: The Voice and I Wish It So by […]
Jacob M. Appel’s books include the story collection Einstein’s Beach Home, as well as the essay collection, Phoning Home. His fiction has appeared in AGNI, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Appel has received the William-Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for best short story and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation grant. He teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and practices […]