Issue 8 / Winter 2017 T he bearded man who stands at the corner of Garvey and Neptune Street is proclaiming the second coming of Big Deals at the mattress store. I find myself suddenly holding a flyer as I stumble past him. He’s wearing a sandwich sign shaped...
Review: The Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott The Insurrections: Stories Author: Rion Amilcar Scott The University Press of Kentucky, 2016 ISBN: 081316818X $24.95 The Insurrections is a collection of thirteen stories dealing with societal constructs and...
Secrets of Men in a Lifeboat by Todd R. Baker Secrets of Men in a Lifeboat Author: Todd R. Baker Aqueous Books, 2016 ISBN: 069255484X $16.99 In a world of 7+ billion people, the pressure to be perfect can be crushing. In Luke Morrow’s mind, no one...
Superman on the Roof by Lex Williford Superman on the Roof Author: Lex Williford Rose Metal Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-941628-06-5 $12.00 In his introduction to Superman on the Roof, judge Ira Sukrungruang says the book “did not let me go. It told me to stay...
In this issue, SFWP intern Teresa Staiano interviews author Brad Windhauser, whose story “Hope” was published by SFWP in 2013, and whose novel The Intersection was recently released from Black Rose Writing. Originally from Southern California,...
??? I hear a strange clicking sound, look down the semi-dark corridor, and see a shadowy figure near the second of the two cells. A man is holding what looks like an old coffee can in his left hand. When he withdraws his right hand from the can, I see that it’s...
