Mud Season Review
Fiction Editor Ann Fisher interviews Issue #57’s fiction writer Amanda Yskamp Find Amanda’s work here. “If a story lacks energy or focus, sometimes it can be saved by rendering it in an entirely different mode.” —Amanda Yskamp We were drawn into “Diorama” right away! You drop us into a moment that expands to a completeness […]
Nonfiction Co-Editor Coty Poynter interviews Issue #57’s nonfiction author Laura Carnes Williams Find Laura’s work here. “I start the writing process off the page. I get an idea and take it for long walks, shaping it into a story, literally step by step.” —Laura Carnes Williams This essay is intimate, filled with moments of self-reflection. […]
It Was Not Midnight, It Was Not Raining Let’s call this our sixth anniversary. Yes, we married last January but six years ago drank our first pints together—the two of us at Kelly’s swiveling on corner stools, talking Beckett and Bashō like we knew something. It was Halloween. We met a man named Elvis though […]
The Slow Down Mid-March 2020: My husband and I went to Coleman’s just before everything closed. The restaurant possessed an eerie, desolate quality, like an old western town after a dangerous outlaw had arrived. The waitress approached the table with a brave smile. Did she have COVID? Did we? Apparently, some people could be asymptomatic […]
Growing Pains Series Digital, 1920×972
Diorama And so it was, from the day he left us. I didn’t want to, but I ended up counting days, as if the numbers might add up to something more than gone, like some kind of miraculous equation resulting in next month’s rent. It wasn’t so easy, even when Jack was here and employed; […]
