Issue 19 / Fall 2019 No one had heard from Spencer in three days, and now his friend Abby stood outside Spencer’s apartment while the building superintendent used his master key to open the door. His name was Buff, and he wasn’t. As he bent over the lock,...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 My mother’s first memory was a dark one. She was three, living in the gray, perilous misery of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. The ghetto had become her home as a baby. She, who had just celebrated her first birthday with her cousins, aunts,...
Breathing Lessons Disguised as a Mystery: Reading Tara Laskowski’s One Night Gone One Night Gone Author: Tara Laskowski Graydon Press, 2019 ISBN: 978-1525832192 $16.99 Review by Kate Anderson Everyone dreams, at one time or another, of walking away and starting...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 The mailed invitation surprised Jonah Marquez. Symposium For The Arts, which held its annual awards ceremony in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had included him on their exclusive guest list: fifty nominees for ten awards, and each one could invite a...
Issue 19 / Fall 2019 “Is that her?” Lucía asked. “Yes, ma’am, that’s her. Every sequence is the same,” he said. “Every molecule.” They were as proud of her as Lucía had been when she’d seen her—the original—for the first time. She’d been born in her...
