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...

“Red Rabbit” by Robert W. Fieseler

Issue 12 / Winter 2018   I found him slouched against the wall by the Kids Foot Locker on Canal Street, though he looked to be long past kiddie shoes. He was waiting for the streetcar and seemed familiar to me because I’d dreamt about someone like him the night...

“Stab” by Sue Granzella

Issue 12 / Winter 2018   “You said the medicine was ‘injectable,’” I said. “That means that it’s able to be injected. So you don’t have to inject it, right?” It was my third appointment with the neurologist, and I was battling her over proper administration...

The Lying Game

Jerzy by Jerome Charyn Jerzy: A Novel Author: Jerome Charyn Bellevue Literary Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781942658146 $16.99   Jerzy: A Novel is the story of post-WWII figure Jerzy Kosinski, whose life was a blend of fact and fiction for decades. Author Jerome Charyn...