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Daily Archives: July 30, 2023
July 26 I checked into the Mariott Residence Inn two days ago. I went outside around 9:00 pm […]
That Summer in Yonkers by Lillian Slugocki
My boss, a great food chemist and inventor of tastes like Keurig’s Hot Apple Cider, had recently retired. […]
Spaghetti Man by Sam Schieren
They came in on the Zodiacs with the Armorflate up. For the first two thousand meters the outboards […]
Muslim Sea Burial by Andrew Rose
Heather works at the mental institution and when she walks into a patient’s room with feces on the […]
Risk by Laurie Lindop
In this stunning excerpt of her in-progress novel, Simi Singh shows us that the best writing is not […]
An Introduction to Simi Singh by Kristina Marie Darling
The cover of Kelle Groom’s latest book, How to Live (Tupelo Press, 2023) demurely suggests that it is […]
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on How to Live by Kelle Groom
Sappho has always been an influencer, even when her poems were burned when the Great Library at Alexandria […]
Songs of the 10th Muse: Leslie Friedman on Dan Beachy-Quick’s ...
Not everyone will read the physical copy of Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein, but in doing so, […]
Shannon Vare Christine on J. Hope Stein’s little astronaut
As a woman, I am concerned about the body. As a US-American woman, I am concerned about our […]
“I find in the mirror a woman”: (Bodily) Citizenship in ...
The Future Will Call You Something Else is situated in place as much as it is in displacement. […]
Katie Richards on Natasha Sajé’s The Future Will Call You ...
Section I “The hawk circles”, provides a testing ground for the limits of endurance and requisite empathy as […]