Book Excerpt When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed by Christopher Bowen Gary jumps up and down as we cross paths for the first time down the hall clasping his hands together in exasperation and reaching his right one out to shake mine. I reach out and he vigorously shakes it. He is excited to meet me. I say hello and give him … Continue reading Excerpt No. 4 – Christopher Bowen
Book Excerpt A Gentle Rage by Tony Press I’ve lived in this house 45 years. I’m 91. You do the math. Yesterday I went to see the house and neighborhood of my youth – not my thirties, but my childhood. That was a long time ago. Yesterday is already pretty far back, too. I almost wrote “yesterday I drove to see the house” but that, … Continue reading Excerpt No. 3 – Tony Press
Book Excerpt Backseat Blues by Jules Archer It’s mama’s car. A big boatload of a machine, the ’65 Chevy Impala is. The only thing she ever bought with her own money until daddy got hold of her. Mama always drives. Daddy always gets the passenger seat. And when daddy goes away I keep taking the backseat. Mama loves daddy more than me. But I don’t … Continue reading Excerpt No. 2 – Jules Archer
Book Excerpt Drafts of a Suicide Note by Mandy-Suzanne Wong I wonder what to call you. You spirit, you disembodied creature, you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom. You’re not just whatever designated word, whatever fleshless prefab vision is bound to fail you, even though all words are as enthralling and slippery as specters. As for me, everything in me amounts to the great void of the … Continue reading Excerpt No. 1 – Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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