Review: One More Day By Kelly Simmons
One More Day By Kelly Simmons In her third novel, One More Day, Kelly Simmons deftly demonstrates that she is an author who is not afraid to take risks when it comes to the art of storytelling. The novel centers on a young mother whose child is snatched from his car seat while she’s tending […]
Poetry: Rue by Melissa Bull
Arc by Melissa Bull Plastic strips sluice up and down December beams string against the white parchment the mismatched chairs the buckwheat pancakes while blinds stripe light on white and whiter white. It is too cold for snow. The day’s low sun feeds pale slights through blinds in ribbons stripes the cold apartment the mismatched […]
Interview: Kristel Derkowski Author of Six Million Trees
Derkowski’s memoir of working as a tree planter in the clear-cut forests of Canada is a riveting piece of literature. Rocks Mills Pressrocksmillspress.com Shelf Unbound: Six Million Trees chronicles a few seasons you spent working as a tree planter in Canada. You were required to plant hundreds of trees per day and it was quite […]
Interview: Rosa Liksom Author of Compartment No. 6
Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers Liksom, a painter and filmmaker, creates a cinematic travelogue of a woman traversing Russia by train. Graywolf Pressgraywolfpress.org Shelf Unbound: You tell the story of a young Finnish woman traveling by train from Moscow to Mongolia in the last years of the […]
Interview: Julie Marie Wade Author of Six
Six poems from the Lambda-award winning author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures and When I Was Straight Red Hen Press Redhen.org Shelf Unbound: You have six poems with six points of view. Why choose this structure and why six? Julie Marie Wade: Oh, I’m so glad you asked! Years ago, in the fall of […]
Feature Essay: Reading John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
Reading John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” by Charles May may-on-the-short-story.blogspot.com Two of John Cheever’s best known early stories, “Torch Song” and “The Enormous Radio,” are outright fantasies. Later stories, such as “O Youth and Beauty” and “The Country Husband,” are more realistic treatments of middle-aged men trying to hold on to youth and some meaningful place in […]
Review: Bookmarked: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Bookmarked: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five By Curtis Smith The Bookmarked series is a new line of books from IG Publishing in which lesser-known authors meditate on the impact that various works of literature by better-known authors have had an impact on their lives. Tackling Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in the second volume of the series, Curtis Smith […]
Poetry: Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Oh, Vancouver by Elee Kraljii Gardiner The city is one big in-law suite, Crowded by natural beauty, and lonely. My friend feels bad about being depressed. A woman I met sends me one line: I’m lonely. Statuesque, articulate, she is the city, yet also the forest bruised by developments. Hear us tapping on the stucco […]
Excerpt: The Battle for Guiniloupay Through the Ages of Guiniloupay, Book One by Joseph Brown
About the Book: Long ago, the guinea pig race lived together in a city on the coast. But when a storm came from the sea, that way of life ended. Now a nomadic culture, they’ve become experts at finding the best places to live, gather, and thrive. They follow their curiosity to find new lands […]
Excerpt: Tin Man by Tom Lisowki
veryshortfiction.com Featured in June/July 2016 Issue: Short Stories Caught myself thinking life was not so bad. I’m sitting on a plane wearing silk shorts instead of pants. I have a tinfoil helmet on, with the eyes cut out. Some green slippers from Bali. None of this is illegal. Either that, or no one in the […]