___________________________________ Born into an artistic family, Dorian Vallejo’s career began when he started illustrating book covers as a student at the School of Visual Arts, in New York. As the field increasingly began to incorporate the use of computer-generated images, Vallejo felt the need to pursue other avenues with his art. His love of traditional […]
“Where’s The Baby,” a short story by Susan Robison, appeared in Issue 22 and can be read here. We’d love to hear more about this story. I have been working on this story for at least five years. My initial thought was that it would be a work of magical realism and there actually would […]
Read More: A brief interview with Kelly Fordon Sharon didn’t answer when she felt the first vibration in her jeweler’s apron, or even the second one, but when she pulled out the phone and saw it was her older sister, Evie, calling for the third time, she put her brass brush down on the table. […]
Read More: A brief interview with Diane Sahms-Guarnieri Suite for Iris If a (wo)man fears death, (s)he shall be saved by (her)his poems. —Mark Strand Iris dreams of a cage In the locked cage of Iris’s dream memories preserved, but they were not hers they belonged to someone else and as she looked closer seeing […]
Read More: A brief interview with Sean Bernard Hemingway Middle night the bathroom water line – water main, valve, whatever the hell – was still dripping. Which wasn’t a problem when you couldn’t hear it dripping but then winds kicked up in advance of the next day’s storm and the curtains clackclacked so Kevin got […]
Read More: A brief interview with Lucas Jacob Threat “We cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside America.” –Donald J. Trump, February 28, 2017 Everyone agrees: we are passinga bitter season, cold-shoulderingpast one another as if our tracksonce laid at our heels will abideand show themselves straightshould we lose our way in the dark of […]
Read More: A brief interview with Jack Stewart At Home with Angels They used to love the limelight, showering upon the choreography of daily life the fireworks spreading from their wings, and the vast production of dreams. But this generation is more reserved, always choosing to stand to the side, the way the bottle of […]
“At Home with Angels,” “Madame Vuillard and the Hydrangeas,” and “In the Luxembourg Gardens” by Jack Stewart appeared in Issue 18 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about these poems. “Madame Vuillard and the Hydrangeas.” I have always been interested in art, and I like to imagine what is going on […]
Read More: A brief interview with Hadley Moore Earlier today the hippies had ambushed Lynette, and in the hours since they left she’d been off-kilter, lost in a vacant sort of perseverating that came down to feeling humiliated and not knowing how to soothe herself. She guessed the hippies had tried the broken bell first. […]
Read More: A brief interview with Taylor Koekkoek In the first week of the last season at Thrillville, USA a boy got all fucked up in the Haunted Mine. The animatronics tore a wasp-nest apart somehow, and the kid came out stung to hell. Poor kid was riding alone too. I’d always thought you could […]