Excerpt from The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin
February 19, 2015
Chapter 1 EUREKA, CALIFORNIA, 1998 When Gabriel returned to me, I was twenty-one, and I was in the middle of…
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Hypertext Interview With Garnett Kilberg Cohen
February 17, 2015
By Christine Rice “A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting,…
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Abstract Faces by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
February 17, 2015
Read “Abstract Faces” in Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s “Swarm to Glory” available from Wiseblood Books. After Greg’s arrest, I searched my…
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Legless and Under Waves by Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz
February 14, 2015
All day I dread the end of it, the knot that will form in my stomach as I climb the…
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Honky Love by Shawn Shiflett
February 13, 2015
Excerpt from ‘Hey, Liberal!’ With Algebra under his belt, Simon weaved down a crowded second-floor hallway in the new building,…
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Be Home Soon by Julie Pimblett
February 12, 2015
Is a single egg enough? He thought cracking one into the frying pan. It seems he’s eating less and less.…
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Buddleia by Louise Palfreyman
February 11, 2015
The corner house looks empty, but I know it is not. By day the boards at its windows give nothing…
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PALM by Alverne Ball and V Ken Marion
February 10, 2015
Alverne Ball is the co-writer of One Nation published by 133art. Recently, Mr. Ball received a 2014 Glyph award as…
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The End of Autumn by Virginia Ilda Baker
February 10, 2015
The last time I saw him, he was twisted up in my bedsheets. It was early, my bedroom was dark…
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Priests, Professors, Coaches, Conquistadors and Astronauts by Kate Weinberg
February 9, 2015
Jamie is back from outer space. He goes every two weeks and comes back balder. I ask him what he…
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Exit Music by Chelsea Laine Wells
February 8, 2015
When you hang the entire weight of your happiness from one person, how they ache to throw you off and…
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Hypertext Interview With Darcey Steinke
February 3, 2015
By Chelsea Laine Wells In her latest novel, Sister Golden Hair, Darcey Steinke investigates, as she says, ‘…how hard it…
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Excerpt from Sister Golden Hair by Darcey Steinke
February 3, 2015
CHAPTER ONE Sandy The Vagabond Motor Lodge sat across the street from the Fiji Island restaurant, wedged between Johnny’s Auto…
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Hypertext Interview With Jessie Ann Foley
January 19, 2015
By Christine Rice Jessie Ann Foley’s young adult novel, The Carnival at Bray (Elephant Rock Books), is complex and dark…
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Excerpt from Jessie Ann Foley’s The Carnival at Bray
January 19, 2015
The carnival at Bray stood huddled against the rain on the rocky coastline of the Irish Sea, the pink and…
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COLD by Ken Rodgers
January 12, 2015
Pop’s breath hung between us as we stood in the skinny aspen trees with their big black spots on bright…
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The Apartment by Doug Shiloh
January 7, 2015
(Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) CHAPTER 3 from the novel POOKOO The Apartment Chicago comes from the word shikaakwa meaning wild…
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The Field House by Doug Shiloh
January 6, 2015
(Chapter 1) (Chapter 3) CHAPTER 2 from the novel POOKOO The Field House I would see many disasters that year.…
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Personal Ground Zero by Doug Shiloh
January 5, 2015
(Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) CHAPTER 1 from the novel POOKOO Personal Ground Zero The world is a severely misspelled place;…
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Hypertext Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz
November 21, 2014
By Paul Massignani You’re a fidgeting junior high student, a talented only child who doesn’t know much of the world…
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Backyards, BB Guns, and Nursery Rhymes
October 3, 2014
Krista Steinke’s Archival Pigment Prints 2006-2010 “Backyards, BB Guns, and Nursery Rhymes” places a contemporary spin on familiar children’s stories…
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From Self Publishing to St. Martin’s Press
October 1, 2014
Samantha Hoffman’s Journey From Self Publishing to St. Martin’s Press Interviewed by Christine Rice CR: Tell me about What More…
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Sylvia burns yellow dahlias on her dark altar of the sun [1] by Ariane Elizabeth Kenney
September 30, 2014
I. I want to sleep in an open field to travel west, to walk freely at night,[2] to the wildly…
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Hypertext Interview With Sheree Greer
September 12, 2014
By Christine Rice Sheree Greer doesn’t let a single spindly blade of grass grow under those Converse. In just the…
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Excerpt from Sheree Greer’s Let the Lover Be
September 12, 2014
Chapter One Friday Stay awake this time. Stay awake this time. Stay awake this time. Kiana said it to herself like…
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Hypertext Interview with J. Bradley & Adam Mazer
September 8, 2014
By Matt Martin Even though they’d never met, Jesse Bradley and Adam Mazer collaborated via Google Chat and Facebook Messenger…
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Excerpt from Jesse Bradley’s & Adam Mazer’s The Bones of Us
September 8, 2014
  J. Bradley is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared in numerous…
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Man Around the House by Barbara Arno Modrack
September 4, 2014
The Lions were in overtime when Dawn kicked Josh out. He’d been eating a sandwich on the couch when she…
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Hypertext Interview with Elizabeth Gaffney
September 2, 2014
By Christine Rice After 16 years at the Paris Review, Elizabeth Gaffney is currently the editor at large for the literary…
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Excerpt from Elizabeth Gaffney’s When The World Was Young
September 2, 2014
Every Saturday that winter, Wally and Ham went to the St. George pool to horse around and splash, and for…
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