A Conversation with Brandon Barrett
Brandon Barrett is a practicing cardiologist living in rural Virginia with his wife and son. His stories have appeared in The Literary Review, The Cossack Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Jersey Devil...
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by LINDA WOOLFORD From below the water’s surface, Sammy saw a smear of sky. It was like looking through the glass-top coffee table he hid beneath to get his breath when it felt like war all around him....
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by MARK JACOBS A bunch of noisy goddamn ducks were flying over the hospital as the orderly wheeled Glynda’s wheelchair out to the taxi. Geese, probably they were geese. Whatever. The orderly was a...
View ArticleA Conversation with Paul Linczak
PAUL LINCZAK received an MFA from Syracuse University, where he was a Cornelia Carhart Ward Fellow in Fiction. His writing has appeared in Salt Hill and Stone Canoe. His story, “Frankenstorm,” appeared...
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by ROBERT DALL The address was somewhere near Newtown Creek, in the borderlands between Queens and Brooklyn but also between rebirth and decay: abandoned warehouses, chop shops, and fuel tanks slowly...
View ArticleThe Captain of Moods
by LESLEE BECKER The name-calling started with an argument about John Wayne. We’d been watching a John Wayne movie on TV, my mother laying it on about The Duke’s good looks and heroism. My father shook...
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Mimi Herman, to be featured in CQ 66.2, was selected as the 2017 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate! Congrats!
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Congrats to contributor @geriulrey! Her essay “13 & B” in 65.1 is a notable essay in Best American Essays 2016! http://bit.ly/2cXCQJk
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Congrats to Dennis McFadden, the winner of the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. His story “Dancing O’Hanlon” is featured in CQ 66.1!
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Real Estates: A Review of Jade Chang’s “The Wangs vs. The World”
by SAMUEL BEDNARCHIK New York City: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 Riding a wave of glowing advance buzz, Jade Chang’s debut novel The Wangs vs. The World appeared on bookshelves in early October....
View ArticleCQ Contributor publishes first book
CQ Contributor Sarah Carey published her book, The Heart Contracts, with Finishing Line Press. You can view her previous publications here: http://sarahkcarey.com/publications/
View ArticleCQ Poet featured on Verse Daily
CQ Poet Hyejung Kook’s poem “Invention No. 7 in e minor” (CQ 65.1) was featured on Verse Daily: http://www.versedaily.org/2016/inventionno7ineminor.shtml
View ArticleThe Tie Post
by T.J. MCLEMORE The Osage orange (that little tree by the lake we called bodark) grows fast and stays squat, blackland native stout-limbed and braiding her coarse hair. The dense flesh, perfect to...
View ArticleA Conversation with Shelley Berg
SHELLEY BERG ’s stories have appeared in Phoebe and Passages North. She lives with her husband and two children in Dedham, Massachusetts, where she is working on her first novel. Her story, “The Dirty...
View ArticleJohnny Cash’s Harmonica, San Quentin
by NIELS RINEHART “I’m telling you, I’ve been looking at that cigarette on the window sill since I got moved to this cell five years ago.” The new kid sat on the opposite bunk, holding the cigarette in...
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Experiments in Incomprehension: A Review of Brian Evenson’s “A Collapse of...
by BEN MURPHY Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2016. Brian Evenson’s collection A Collapse of Horses is an experiment in incomprehension. That’s not to say that the narratives themselves are...
View ArticleA Conversation with Geri Ulrey
Geri Ulrey is a writer, filmmaker, and educator living in Los Angeles. She has also been published in Gulf Coast, was a finalist for the 2016 Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction, and shortlisted as a...
View ArticleThe Big Feed
by BRANDON TIMM Failing deodorant hung thick around Lisa as she fought through the surging crowd around the zoo’s tiger exhibit. God, she could taste the people baking in the sun. Their sweat, their...
View ArticleUntil the Morning Comes
by RICHARD SCHMITT This morning I beat the old lady next door up, which makes me happy, kick-starts the day. She’s tough to beat up that one. Kind-of-a raw old lady, bare-knuckled and hunchbacked,...
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by LINDSAY WILSON Lake Buena Vista, California. At dusk, if you are lucky, this man-made lake’s surface lays as still as hand beaten metal, the thin imperfect mirror of which breaks with each fish...
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