ferrous wheel: a chapbook Author: Natalie Sharp Tarantism Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-52390-421-1 $15.00 Hide and Seek From the Top of the ferrous wheel It’s morning in the world of ferrous wheel by Natalie Sharp. It’s early and humid, and the speaker has managed...
1. I’m not eating again. Not because I don’t want to, but because it’s making me sick again. And my limbs feel like sand again, feel like hanging on the ends of puppet strings except no one is pulling them. That’s the problem: he’s not pulling them. So I wake up,...
Imagine Nichols Avenue, because Nichols is where we are headed. Granddad Alvarez does not take the usual Sunday scenic route: through downtown D.C., past the Lyndon B. Johnson White House and the sunburnt, sign-shaking Vietnam protesters. Instead, we hook a right from...
Author’s Note My heart is with the people of Turkey in the wake of this terrible news out of Istanbul. Writers always leave things out of their finished products, and in many cases, like the one that follows, they wring their hands about it. This was one of...
Luther stared through the windowpane, looking for the thing that hadn’t happened yet. Pauline ignored her brother, and focused on her cross-stitch of a rooster. “I know they talkin’ about me,” Luther said, voice rising and arms crossed. “Uh-huh,” responded Pauline. He...
“I’ll see you soon,” I said. A heartbeat. “Let’s hope not,” said Doctor Omera Sharpe. He smiled even though my throat had closed up and my eyes were filling with tears. “I mean, we don’t want any more accidents, do we? We don’t want you...
