Visual truth in TUNNEL TO HELL by Scott MacGregor

When common humanity takes a back seat to greed By Beth Osborne   Scott MacGregor’s graphic novel Tunnel to Hell is the story of the Waterworks Tunnel Disaster of 1916, as seen through the eyes of those who suffered as they attempted to work on and survive past...

Culture Rant: Issue 12 / Winter 2018

Harry Potter Fanfiction, Hot Pockets, and Writing By Janice Yu Cheng   Like many typical single-parent, Hot-Pockets-for-dinner, latchkey kids who grew up in the ’90s, I had a lot of time to myself. I liked to read, and so was never without friends, real or...

Love and Labor in America

Tunnel to Hell: The Lake Erie Tunnel Disasters, by Scott MacGregor Tunnel to Hell: The Lake Erie Tunnel Disasters – Tales of Heroism and Tragedy Author: Scott MacGregor Illustrator: Gary Dumm EOI Media Press Inc., 2017 ISBN:1619847809 $19.99   In recent...

“Fence Zone” by Chris Gordon Owen

Issue 12 / Winter 2018   Stretching out in front of me were seemingly endless rows of wooden fences and walls of stone, brick, and cinder block. I guessed that they were sample sections, each one perhaps ten feet long, so densely packed together that from where I...

SFWP Celebrates 20 Years

Part 1: Pain By Andrew Gifford   In November of 1998, my life was a mess. A few years earlier, I started to experience intense pain in my face. It was like someone was drilling into my head – or maybe trying to drill out of it. I described it to doctors as...