You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…
In Sampsell’s “Distress” (view here), we are presented with the scenario of a woman asking a man to call her when he finds himself in…
Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin Manic D Press Paperback, 93 pages ISBN: 978-1-933149-80-6 I hope I can be forgiven for reading Marina Rubin’s collection of…
You’ve pocketed twenty canciones in the San Miguel morning, walking the cobbled streets. Wonder how they did this to the poets; sliced off hands to…
Here (view piece), Todd Dillard has created a story that uses the foreign language of a country to illustrate the traveler’s ignorance. We can see…
We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…
Meagear’s piece (view here) recounts an experience that both characters participated in, using second person as if the speaker were narrating it to the other…
Officials multiply in number while the rest of us dwindle. You can see the signs even in the retail district, where shops that once sold…
Muratori’s speaker (view here) has almost no authority in his life; his ideas remain largely unacknowledged or ignored. It’s somewhat ironic, then, that he is…
Meyers’s piece (view here) presents a character—Mr. Ragman—who is entirely figment. Readers do not get his actual name, his actual age, or any concrete details…