Snapshots
by MARK GOODRICH Lizzy sat in the recliner her kids had bought her when they moved her into the home after Joe had died. The television was on, some news program, muted. One window in the small living...
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington: A Review
by SAM BEDNARCHIK St. Louis, MO: Dorothy, a publishing project, 2016. 215 pp. By my roughly crunched count, Leonora Carrington’s complete literary output totals just over 600 pages of writing. Her...
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Super Extra Grande: A Review
by DOREEN THIERAUF Restless Books, June 2016, 160 pp. Originally written in Spanish (2012) and masterfully translated into English by David Frye, Super Extra Grande is a genre-bending space opera as...
View ArticleThreat Desk
by JOHN HAGGERTY At 3:55PM I close the Threat Desk. I say “close” in the interests of accuracy, because at the inception of the Threat Desk program, when we were given a generous selection of models...
View ArticleThe Thousand Injuries
by REBECCA LARTIGUE Judy had overdone it again, she realized, assessing the large sheet cake; she’d be eating leftovers for days. But it didn’t matter. Everyone was having fun, talking in their...
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Ars Botanica: A Review
by Mary Scott Manning Curbside Splendor Publishing, July 2017, 185 pp. “Sometimes when in the blast radius of some catastrophic act, even the most quotidian things, the dumbest everyday shit will still...
View ArticleThe Sea Road
by JAMES ELENS The storm washed away the town on a Sunday. Moselle lay on the eastern end of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya swamp basin, fifty miles south of New Orleans. The whole town was only a dozen homes...
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The Idyll of Unreproved Pleasures Free
by JOHN ILLO (Click image for full text.) First published in Carolina Quarterly Issue XVII in 1965, John Illo’s “The Idyll of Unreproved Pleasures Free” analyzes the controversial...
View ArticleKeep Swimming or Be Drowned
by ROBERT MAYNOR I knew what my brother would do before I called him. That’s why I’d put it off for so long. JD is not a moderate kind of man, and he saw enough of women being mistreated when we were...
View ArticleThere is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
by JOHN BLAIR . . . for charitable prayers/ Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her. . . . Hamlet: Act 5, Scene 1 Ophelia, lodged,...
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Experimental Animals: A Review
by Ben Murphy Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) by Thalia Field. NY: Solid Objects, 2016. pp. 264 The parenthetical subtitle of Thalia Field’s new book reads like a fallacious marketing...
View ArticleUpside
by MATT DENIS Justin Wolfe is from Beaverdale, Iowa, and he’s the 32nd best high school quarterback in the country. “It’s a tiny ass town, man,” he tells me as we’re stretching near midfield. “There’s...
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Pachinko: A Review
by ANDREW DONG-HYUN KIM Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Grand Central Publishing, February 2017, pp. 496 Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, released early in 2017, is a landmark piece of English-language fiction for a...
View ArticleNo Ash Will Burn
by JAKE MAYNARD Monday. Welcome to the Troublesome Creek Folk School and Resort, where classes are held in little cabins lining the creek bank. There’s one for mandolin class, another for forest foods...
View ArticleA Conversation with Cassandra Passarelli
CQ: What’s your academic background? Do you have an MFA? If so, from where? Did you find it useful professionally and creatively? What has the effect on the field of creative writing been from the...
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Savage Theories: A Review
by JAMES COBB Savage Theories by Paola Oloixarac. Translated by Roy Kesey. Soho Press, 2017, pp. 304. Pola Oloixarac’s novel Savage Theories is a work of academic fiction. That is to say, it is not a...
View ArticleWie Wir Schlafen (The Way We Sleep)
ORIGINAL Wie wir schlafen, auch gleich abbiegen müssen. Und die Dr.-Hossein-Fatemi-Straße sich aufrafft wieder Straße zu werden. Wie sie, einmal an der Luft, in ihrer Länge heißt und die Häuser nichts...
View ArticleCeremonials
by JOHN HOUSTON MANGUM Uncle Dan collapsed outside a Piggly-Wiggly, so Dad got called over to the hospital in Bay Saint Louis. The next day, Mom and I rode over there and saw him in that adjustable...
View ArticleWhat Kills You
by MATT CASHION Monday morning at dialysis, nurse Gretchen brought me an extra blanket so I wouldn’t freeze to death in that room they had to keep so cold, then the blue-eyed therapy dog made her...
View ArticleVolunteer Corn
by AMANDA YANOWSKI Fifty years ago, on the fifth of July, Birdie Sanders wakes up in her closet of a room on the second floor of the farmhouse thinking about the fields. Washing up in the bathroom,...
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