by BlogEditor | Aug 25, 2022 | Creative Nonfiction
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...
by BlogEditor | Aug 18, 2022 | Book Reviews
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...
by BlogEditor | Aug 16, 2022 | Fiction
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...
by BlogEditor | Aug 10, 2022 | Fiction
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...
by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2022 | Fiction
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...
by BlogEditor | Jul 26, 2022 | Book Reviews
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich FollowFollowFollow The Sentenceby Louise Erdrich Harper Collins 2021$28.99ISBN: 978-0-06-267112-7 Book Review by Ariel Jennings It took me a very long time to read this novel because I knew it would challenge me in the most brutal of...
