It was cool for that time of year, tolerable. The night was hidden by a hazy mist that clung to the van’s windshield. Larry almost didn’t see the kid until he was upon him—a ghost on the side of the road, neither coming nor going. Larry passed him—no...
Corrales, New Mexico is a narrow, meandering patchwork of a village lying low in the Rio Grande Valley. It consists of horse paddocks, orchards, skinny vegetable gardens, slightly jarring retail strips and ancient adobe buildings jammed into the space between the...
Sheila R. Lamb reviews Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod. Light Lifting Author: Alexander MacLeod Biblioasis, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-897231-94-4 CAD $19.95/US $16.95 Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeod is anything but light. In a collection of seven short...
Kurt Cobain once said: I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. In her short story collection What Boys Like: and Other Stories, Amy Jones illustrates many characters who, in these fifteen brilliantly well-crafted tales, much like Cobain, revel in...
Recently, I have been trying to understand how women, as lovers, observers, as teachers and veterans, mothers and wives, and especially as female poets, understand and feel about war in all its many forms. Jehanne Dubrow, in her third poetry collection, Stateside,...
