Thanks to Micah Perks’s short story collection, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape, my faith in the restorative power of fiction has been renewed. Simply put by Daniel,…
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Image Credit: Jebulon Imagine writing an essay about harassment in the literary community. Imagine writing an essay over several months, adding paragraphs every time a new development occurred. Imagine…
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Don’t Let Them See Me Like This by Jasmine Gibson Nightboat Books, July 2018 96 pages / Nightboat Books / SPD / Amazon Much contemporary ‘political’ literature exists to…
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French epi with pull-apart leaves left on the counter. Croissants flavored with chocolate, raspberry, almond, and cheese. Deli trays, brownie bites, and fruit-filled bouquets. Loaf after loaf—rye, sourdough, wheat. Frozen…
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In a photograph taped to the wall of my room, my mother is running through sand, emerging from water. Her left arm is lifted, blurred, as she sweeps hair from…
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Love by Hanne Ørstavik Translated by Martin Aitken Archipelago Books, February 2018 180 pages / Archipelago Books / Amazon What sort of a mother forgets her son’s birthday? Pose this…
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A PIGEON IS A ROCK DOVE Before poetry My Grandmother taught me to pray Hallowed be thy name— & lost her mind. I watched Her solemn back curled form; I,…
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Image Credit: HELVETIQ on Flickr Amherst, Massachusetts, 1980: Reagan v. Carter I’m floating peacefully in a warm sea of amniotic fluid, when the voice of Ronald Reagan penetrates…
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1. “I have that Italian sleeping disease,” my mom says, liberating her Egg McMuffin from its wrapper. “The one that kills you because you never sleep again.” “You don’t have…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The CPR was pure mechanics, zero emotion, only adrenaline. Everyone was working in a frenzy—an ad lib ballet on a stage of blood. They were sticking needles, pumping blood, shouting…
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I don’t know much about my mother’s early twenties in Los Angeles. From photographs, I know she favored mauve nail polish and owned a leopard print one-piece. She’s told me…
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The Theory of Almost Everything, by Salvatore Pane Braddock Avenue Books, 2018 267 pages – Braddock Avenue Books / Amazon The premise of Salvatore Pane’s second novel, The Theory…
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When Hamas returned the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years of captivity, they dressed him in a plaid shirt with navy shoulders, a navy-and-white collar and navy cuffs. Some…