by Jack Harris | Oct 11, 2018 | Magazine Article
The day had wrapped us up in the blanket of its heat and refused to let us out, so much did it love us. Or maybe it was just lonely. I had spent a lot of time that summer thinking about ways to anthropomorphize the days, mostly because they were never ending and...
by Michael Hopkins | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
I got stung. On my ankle, I saw three bees, and could feel them right through my sock. I brushed them off, escaped from our vegetable garden where I was weeding, and ran into the house. “Damn it,” I said to Betty, my wife, who was chopping carrots, “I got stung.”...
by Erik Richardson | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
The Philosopher’s Flight, by University of Wisconsin Hospital emergency room doctor and first-time author Tom Miller, combines magical realism with coming-of-age romance and swashbuckling adventure. Miller’s fantasy novel is set in America in the early years of World...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff | Apr 27, 2018 | Magazine Article
Me and Janie and Melissa, we want to be other women. Not the women we are expected to be, but the ones we’ve seen on television and read about in novels. Women we barely remember from movies we watched as little girls. Older women. Wealthy women. Sad, married women....
by Ann Zindler | Jan 31, 2018 | Magazine Article
The wrong side of the tracks. That’s where he was from. Run-down properties, running from the rent man, and his dad running in and out of jobs. It was the alcohol that caused it. That, and too many kids. Bennett was the oldest of eight. Now, at seventeen, he was...
