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...
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...
We’ve returned to Europe on our continual trek around the globe interviewing translators. This time we have a translator who works in a wide number of European languages, Kerri Pierce. Kerri Pierce is a writer, translator, and mother living in Rochester, NY. She...
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...
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...
