by Robert Vaughan | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When I tell people what I do, the question I am most commonly asked right after “What do you write?” is, “What is flash fiction?” This usually leaves me wondering how I might summarize this easily enough so I don’t confound their question even more. Short stories have...
by Daniel Born | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
What to do when long-lost friends from Jerusalem—an ultra-orthodox couple named Shoshana and Yerucham (formerly known as Lauren and Mark)—pay a visit twenty years after finding God in the Holy Land, only to end up insulting your family. Your son “does not seem Jewish...
by Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When Arcadia Books opened its doors in downtown Spring Green this past May, owner James Bohnen found himself realizing the dream he’s had since his twenties. A director at the nearby American Players Theater since 1996, Bohnen bought the 140-year-old building about...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Nobody could figure out why the Colonel’s wife tried to beat the train. When Dad came home that night he said it was a terrible waste of a ’55 Chevy Bel Air, and, even with a V-8 engine, she should have known better. When he took off his service-issue...
by Nancy Jesse | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Lydia Fauerbach ladled chicken noodle soup into two bowls, her everyday ones with the roses faded from years of hard washing. She had made the noodles this morning, drying them in long strands on the back of a wooden chair. Two days ago, she’d killed and dressed...
