Mud Season Review
Two Supplicants in the Queen City Here is my great-grandmother Natalie Reichert: sitting stick-straight, alone in a small, open buggy. Grinning. Her dark, windswept hair snakes over her shoulders. Tugging lightly at the reins of the horse, she appears both regal and carefree. Where and when it was taken isn’t clear. The setting is rural; […]
Lauren Bender interviews
Emily Alice Katz
Our editor-in-chief Lauren Bender recently had this exchange with Emily Alice Katz, our Issue #30 featured fiction author. Here’s what she had to say about her writing process, the joy of being part of a writing community, and the inspiration behind her short story “The Italian Dance”… Read more
The Italian Dance
By Emily Alice Katz
Outside the sanatorium library, Evie spies a notice for a theatrical gathering. The announcement is written neatly on thick vanilla card stock. Sunday afternoons from two o’clock to half past three, it says. The words slope across the page from left to right. English letters, not Yiddish. Evie calculates: only four days to wait…
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