Lost Time by Nancy Jorgensen FollowFollowFollow Two brides in my family never had sex. I wasn’t told their birth names. I knew them only as Sister Christine and Sister Hilarion. Born in the 1890s, they wore flowing black tunics, cinched by a coarse rope that dangled...
MINERVA’S DISPATCH: April News FollowFollowFollow Chapbook Contest Winner Congratulations to Hannah Yerington on winning the 2022 Dare to Be Chapbook Contest! Her chapbook, Sheologies, begins with a folktale of a world where lagoons speak, flowers pray, and...
Kids in America by Liz Prato FollowFollowFollow Kids in America: Essays on Gen Xby Liz Prato Santa Fe Writers Project (June 2022Paperback, 210 pagesISBN-10: 1951631250ISBN-13: 978-1951631253 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a quote from the Class of 1984...
Losing Art An excerpt from LOSING ART, a memoir by Patricia Feinman FollowFollowFollow I got as close to Art as I could, resting one arm on either side of him, without letting any of my weight lean on his emaciated body. I looked into his face. It’s okay, my love, I...
Fat Girl In Crowded Room by Erica W. Jamieson FollowFollowFollow I should stand, right? And just start talking? Okay, then. I’m Emily. I should tell you it’s not my first time in group. I mean I’ve been before, a long time ago, in a group, like this. And, well, now...
Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples FollowFollowFollow Stargazing in Solitude by Suzanne Samples, Ph.D. Running Wild PressDecember, 2021Paperback, 337 pagesISBN-10: 1947041924 Book Review by Amanda Morris A book that begins with the preface “Spoiler alert: I’m...
Wizening by Jennifer Weiss FollowFollowFollow When my gnarled toes graze a desolate bedand I stow away your time-frayed pillowcase,may I remember: The trace of your fingers that unraveled me.The rubescent communion of our lips.The bliss when I nuzzled the cleft of...
Jailbait by Rachel Christina McConnell FollowFollowFollow Virginia is for lovers, his license plate said, but I sure as hell wasn’t losing my virginity in the backseat of his car. My first time was in a Motel 6. Getting a room was my idea. I thought it was sexy....
Weight of a Thousand Flowers by Linda Petrucelli FollowFollowFollow “I can see myself living here for a very long time,” I told the realtor, my fingers trembling as I signed for the rundown rancher with a great view. I surprised myself. Long-term commitment was unlike...
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani FollowFollowFollow Here We Are: American Dreams, American NightmaresBy Aarti Namdev Shahani Celadon Books, New York, 2019$16.99, PaperbackISBN 9781250204745 Book Review by Ankita Rathour In...
