Three Poems by Henry Cherry
The hours gulped like frantic mouthfuls of air /
after being underwater for too long. The stars / dangled above us, buoyant and mysterious.
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Fiction: Feet by Rebekah Bergman
The child’s feet are dirty. “Yuck,” the mother says. “Look how dirty your feet are.” The mother remembers when the child’s feet were dipped in ink. His first steps into […]
Review: To Love a Stranger by Kris Faazt (reviewed by Dakotah Jennifer)
To Love a Stranger By Kris Faatz 366 Pages Blue Moon Publishers, 2017 $19.99 978-1988279190 To Love A Stranger, the debut novel by Kris Faatz, presents a story full of love, […]
Review: This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (reviewed by Art Edwards)
This is Memorial Device By David Keenan 298 Pages London: Faber & Faber, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34017-0 The Commitments aside, rock novels tend to avoid head-on attempts to convey the most […]
Fiction: Passenger by Lituo Huang
This trip had been meant to repair us. Instead, the space between us had grown into a small, silent ghost.
Nonfiction: To Run and Give Chase by Kenneth Lee
The insults piled on top of each other like a chain of cars crashing at high speed.
Nonfiction: Pubescent Still by Anittah Patrick
Maybe I still hadn’t gotten my period or anything, but surely this was proof: things were real and we were getting older.
Fiction: You Belong to Yesterday by John Kazanjian
Nostalgia is like sweet poison, in a way.
Wigleaf Top 50 and Longlist Honors
Congratulations to the authors whose stories in jmww appeared in this year’s Wigleaf top 50: Laurie Stone, “Park” C. D. Frelinghuysen, “Going for the Throat” Also, super congrats […]
Review: The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny (reviewed by Julie E. Gabrielli)
The narrative reads like a dream. An old story told by an ancestor. A rumor. Observation is at the core of it all.
