The Bitter Kind: A Flash Novelette by Tara Lynn Masih and James Claffey
Review by Laura Dennis At its best, flash fiction is a powerful alchemy that combines the best of poetry…
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The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting by Veronica Montes
Review by Carla Panciera Veronica Montes’s The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting, winner of Black Lawrence Press’s…
Kathy Fish – Muriel’s Cyclone
Muriel’s Cyclone Kathy Fish It begins with a snowman who catches Muriel’s eye. It begins with Muriel standing at…
Tara Laskowski – The Return
The Return Tara Laskowski Our child was there, and then she wasn’t. A reverse birth, if you will. She…
Mary McLaughlin Slechta – Sparrow
Sparrow Mary McLaughlin Slechta Juanetta passed the abandoned house every year since third grade and paid it no mind.…
Dawn Raffel – When Words Clung to Paper
When Words Clung to Paper Dawn Raffel The water rose slowly at first and then in a rush. This…
Sherrie Flick – Honesty
Honesty Sherrie Flick The steam rises, it’s a choir rubbing up my fat belly, then swirling to a hallelujah…
Rosie Forrest – Feral Things
Feral Things Rosie Forrest When the siren first sounds, I am grateful to be settled in the basement, or…
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello – What the River Knows
What the River Knows Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello People tell me I am good with babies. Children like me, they…
Emma Bolden – Assumption
Assumption Emma Bolden The snow stopped before I was born, but I was a girl before the rain started.…