Robin Hemley reminds us that life is just as equally absurd as it is heartbreaking, as silly as it is serious….
INTERVIEW: Robin Hemley, Author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project
Category: Issues
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Pastiloff, Author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life
An extraordinary listen/read in its simplicity and its depth, Proof of Life imparts meaning simultaneously obvious and revelatory.
At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Gregory Emilio
The last week of sixth grade: a time of kick-flips, bottle-rockets, first kisses in closets….
A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina’s Theories of Life by Ann Guy
Theory of Welcome: Boredom opens doors.
Foghorn 1980 by Beth Tillman
The sound of the foghorn blowing low floats up the Mississippi….
Lost by Shoshana Ray
We flag a cab to the Bronx. Mama is downright giddy.
Pistol Whipped by Aimee Seiff Christian
Johnny told me he never saw the gun. He didn’t know what hit him, people say.
Double Dutch by Margaret Luongo
The fine metal sweat-stink of thirteen.
Grief always has a future by JJ Peña
the day’s weeping heat, you’re driving over the speed limit down a random highway
Mink by Kathryn Ganfield
Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead.
