What is the pleasure of a game? We play games to distract, to kill time, to connect with […] A Review of Shawn Rubenfeld’s: The Eggplant Curse and the ...October 31, 2021 in Fiction / Reviews tagged Juliana Converse / Shawn Rubenfeld by ClarenceAlbury
Literary pundits are wont to predict the death of the novel, the death of the short story and […] A Review of Kim Chinquee’s SNOWDOG by Gail Louise SiegelOctober 31, 2021 in Fiction / Reviews tagged Gail Louise Siegel / Kim Chinquee by ClarenceAlbury
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Downhill, there’s a lullaby behind a low door. While rats make love in the garbage piles and […] Felicitas by Margo BerdeshevskyJune 14, 2015 in Fiction / Prose tagged Margo Berdeshevsky by Kristina Marie Darling
The lull before the start was her favorite part of the race. She craved, she supposed, the […] The Longest Journey by BJ Atwood-FukudaJune 14, 2015 in Fiction / Prose tagged B J Atwood-Fukuda by Kristina Marie Darling
1. Game: rest a square of lumber on the round exterior of a log and swing at […] The White City by Kate PartridgeJune 14, 2015 in Fiction / Prose tagged Kate Partridge by Kristina Marie Darling
It is enough to say there has been no carcass I’ve ever stumbled upon whose gape did […] a dissection of the heart in which something has gone ...June 14, 2015 in Fiction / Prose tagged Amanda Mitchell by Kristina Marie Darling