by BlogEditor | Apr 6, 2023 | Fiction
Another Bride in Porto by Jennifer Sears FollowFollowFollow “When I desire you a part of me is gone…” Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet In Porto, everything shimmers with white. Churches with white towers line the city’s white hills. Women wearing flowing white pants...
by BlogEditor | Mar 28, 2023 | Fiction
Blurter by Patricia Dutt FollowFollowFollow They drove all day without any music, leaving the Finger Lakes in Sam’s old Honda just ahead of a snowstorm that would close the schools and the airport’s two gates. Sam sat beside Matt reading poetry and listening to...
by BlogEditor | Mar 23, 2023 | Fiction
I Don’t Have Time for This by Carol Denson FollowFollowFollow “Jen, will you spray my mouth?” “Coming.” Jen stopped scrubbing a pot, dried her hands, and walked into the bedroom. “I need my melanoma,” Margo said. “Melatonin, Mom. Melanoma is skin cancer,” said Jen....
by BlogEditor | Mar 21, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Common Ground by Barbara Felton FollowFollowFollow “Am I supposed to give you lunch?” My sister’s question laid bare our mutual uncertainty about how to understand my visit. It wasn’t a holiday. And she hadn’t invited me. Or rather, she hadn’t explicitly invited me....
by BlogEditor | Mar 20, 2023 | Book Reviews
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns FollowFollowFollow Bad Creeby Jessica Johns Doubleday (2023)$27.00 (hardcover)978-0-385-54869-4 Book review by Rebecca Beardsall “This. Read it. You’re Welcome.” – this was the short but accurate review I posted on Instagram this morning...
by BlogEditor | Mar 14, 2023 | Fiction
Delphiniums in Silence by Sara Masciola FollowFollowFollow They ran out of milk three days ago. Looking into the refrigerator for an alternative, Nora saw a white and green carton of orange juice sitting nearly alone, flanked only by withering grapes and a half-used...
