Fiction: Lingua by Marc Morgenstern
Just a week before, when his father could still speak, he recalled the swallows returning to San Juan de Capistrano, just down the coast.
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Calls for Submissions: Mix Tape
We’ll be launching a new column in the fall called Mix Tape, essays about books mixed any way you want. Got an itch to write about the five best fiction […]
Fiction: Astronomy Lessons by Corey Farrenkopf
At first the creatures took small trinkets Lawrence had no desire to keep. He watched from his bed, patchwork quilt pulled up to his throat.
Fiction: Hooded by Jennifer Wortman
His fur was lush, his breath moist. I told myself to grab the knife. He inhaled. His ribs meshed with mine. I told myself: Not yet.
Fiction: Periphery by Benjamin Curttright
In truth, he driver was distracted, as all of us are sometimes, and after A passed by, he advanced into the intersection at speed without a thought.
Stabbing the Dark: An Interview with Charles Holdefer
[Earlier work is] like seeing an old photograph. Yes, that’s me all right, but I’m not sure I’m that person anymore.
Friday Reads: Known Facts About God by Temim Fruchter
Welcome to “Friday Reads,” featuring stories of the archives of jmww. Kick back, grab a comfy chair, and start your weekend off with beautiful, provocative, startling, unforgettable reads! This week’s […]
Excerpt: Flood by Melissa Scholes Young
Water was what people talked about, worried over, and watched. Upstream and downstream, levees busted by force and by sabotage.
Review: Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life by Paula Bomer (reviewed by Jen Grow)
At the heart of this collection is the search for the shared sense of humanity and compassion that fiction provides us. These essays remind us that stories give us a way to connect rather than to escape.
Review: Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland edited by Jane Sattefield and Laurie Kruk (reviewed by Katherine Cottle)
Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland Edited by Jane Satterfield and Laurie Kruk Demeter Press, 2016 282 pages, $34.95 978-1772580242 While there have been a variety of published and quality anthologies […]
