by Jeff Esterholm | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
The five women, all in their thirties and costumed as pigs in pink cotton onesies, faces hidden by Petunia Pig masks, trotted in through the back door of the house on the corner of 16th and Marquette and into its dark kitchen. The one who led them through the unlocked...
by Bob Wake | Jul 18, 2017 | Magazine Article
This was something Joy Frisk told us one August night around a campfire on a bluff overlooking the boathouse. Joy Frisk was high. Pain meds, most likely. Once in an unguarded moment she confessed torrents of pain and wept. The noble Viking, she called her Vicodin. The...
by Jason Smith | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Novelist Nickolas Butler isn’t afraid to tackle big ideas in his writing. Set in a rural Wisconsin town, his first novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, is an exploration of friendship and the ties that bind us to home. Butler’s sophomore effort, set in and around the fictional...
by I.S. Kallick | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
Will often dreamed of falling, but never flying. Sometimes a cable would slip, or a board would snap, or his foot would step on air to tread on mere surprise. Time and again he failed to wake until his dreaming body slammed into the ethereal street, emptying his...
by Lange Allen | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
Between L’Anse and Baraga on Indian Cemetery Road, Joseph Deer-Running operates the orange, Mac snowplow #7 in near whiteout conditions. With his hands wound tight on the oversized steering wheel, swatches of crystal flakes encapsulate his cab, trapping him inside a...
