What goes through the mind of a writer? #InnerDemons edition To find out, we took to Twitter… Her current collection, Bystanders, is available today, and Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons is gearing up for re-release!   ? How do you classify your writing...

Review: Pepper Girl by Jonterri Gadson

Pepper Girl Author: Jonterri Gadson YesYes Books, 2012 IBSN: 978-1-936919-10-9 $12.00   Sipping Espresso with Pepper Girl “To all the men I’ve loved before: // Keep the poems.” Jonterri Gadson’s Pepper Girl walks us through an understanding of the self as a woman...

“The Good News About Baskets” by Daniel M. Ford

There is a knock at your door. You open it. Standing there is a large, luxuriously bearded, fervid-eyed author, holding a slim case of DVDs. “Have you heard the good word about Baskets?” I ask, shouldering my way into your home, toward your TV. No, I...

“Wheat to Bread” by Atossa Shafaie

Author’s Note The theocracy of modern-day Iran continuously attempts to oppress and regulate social identity, resulting in cross-sections of the pious, defiant, condemned, and invisible. The concept of sexuality navigates these boundaries in frightening and sometimes...

“F.A.T.S.O.” by Patty Houston

Fat of Life #1: Firms, every time obese employees eat doughnuts, you lose cash. Send the message that you want portly workers to pony up more insurance bucks. —from Macon Lute, Comptroller, Federal Alliance To Surcharge Obesity / F.A.T.S.O. At eight a.m. Candace...