Issue 10 / Summer 2017 The veteran relief pitcher worried the ball with his fingers, shaking off every sign the catcher offered. Soon, if this guy didn’t get something going, Roger was going to have to DVR the game. Fantastic. Littering his newish apartment,...
Issue 9 / Spring 2017 Oh lung that keeps collapsing, you are stretched long and thin by your own weight, categorized as a health risk for any tall, skinny, Caucasian male. “Stretched like a water balloon,” the surgeon said. “The weight of the liquid pulls the...
Issue 9 / Spring 2017 They said all she’d need was five, maybe six outfits. Laundry twice a week. This place, this “extended studio” that was actually only a long L-shaped room. The social worker at the hospital after Mom’s emergency said what counted now was...
Review: Myopia by Phyllis Skoy Myopia: A Memoir Author: Phyllis Skoy IPB Books, 2017 $24.95 Phyllis Skoy tackles the art of losing in her reflective memoir Myopia. Within the course of the memoir one witnesses the loss of the mind, of innocence, and...
Issue 9 / Spring 2017 At first, the scaffolding had taken some getting used to—the men’s work boots at eye level, their cell phone conversations, the Spanish radio, the dark. Beneath the filmy cocoon of painter’s cloth it was always dusk, every room shadowed....
