My Father’s Boxes by Laura Plummer FollowFollowFollow In the basement is a shelf of identical cardboard boxes labeled in my father’s heavy, slanted writing. This is his system for categorizing his universe. Boxes of cables and wires, antique watch parts,...
The Cool Girlsby Laura Plummer FollowFollowFollow It’s Lyndsy’s eleventh birthday. The girls she invited are a year older than us. Wanting to impress them, I show off by doing handstands in the above-ground pool. I’m wearing my tie-dye one-piece and feeling totally...
My Place in the Spiral by Rebecca Beardsall FollowFollowFollow My Place in the Spiralby Rebecca Beardsall Atmosphere Press, 2021$17.99ISBN: 9781636495255 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens With My Place in the Spiral, Rebecca Beardsall invites the reader along on her...
Amanda Maynard, Author of The Quixote by Carla Miriam Levy FollowFollowFollow Amanda cradles the book in both hands; she can hardly believe it’s here. She has lurked in McIntyre’s second-hand bookstore for weeks, hoping its musty shelves would offer up this prize, but...
The Girls by Kelli Short Borges FollowFollowFollow Flora stands at the edge of the desert trail, sweat trickling down her back. Scraping her thick chestnut hair back into a high ponytail, she looks forward, her gaze set in determination. Today is the day—she’s going...
Golem by Victoria Mack FollowFollowFollow The monster first appears in the shape of a small child, on an unseasonably warm winter day in New York City. It is late morning, and the windowpanes in Becca’s Washington Heights Elementary School classroom, already spotted...
