Excerpt: Karin Cecile Davidson’s SYBELIA DRIVE

September 2, 2020
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky By Karin Cecile Davidson Girl – October 1967 Rainey paraded down on us the year my…
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Excerpt: Gwen Goodkin’s A PLACE REMOTE

August 28, 2020
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky By Gwen Goodkin Excerpt from “Just Les is Fine” After lunch with Naomi, I called Lynn…
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Excerpt: Matt Fitzpatrick’s MATRIARCH GAME

July 16, 2020
“Dammit!!!” Michonne Reilly, for the second time tripped on a sky-reaching root and fell face-first into a three-inch deep slop…
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Excerpt: Chris Green’s AMERICAN GUN: A POEM BY 100 CHICAGOANS

June 4, 2020
Man’s power has always been great, yet so has indifference. When halos head hollow bodies, it’s tragic, part of being human. (93-Michael O’Daniel) Indifference.…
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Excerpt: Timothy S. Miller’s CITY OF HATE

May 21, 2020
By Timothy S. Miller I know he’s dead because part of his skull is missing. I know he’s dead because…
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Excerpt: Margo Orlando Littell’s THE DISTANCE FROM FOUR POINTS

April 27, 2020
By Margo Orlando Littell At four the next afternoon, Robin drove to 1118 ½ to collect Anne Sackett’s delinquent rent.…
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Excerpt From Cathy Ulrich’s GHOSTS OF YOU

October 16, 2019
Being the Murdered Indian  The thing about being the murdered Indian is you set the plot in motion. You will…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM, BOOK TWO: THE EMPTY ROOM

October 14, 2019
The Empty Room I found Adam and Selby sitting on the rusted white metal chairs on the Demnescus’ front porch.…
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Excerpt from Katey Schultz’s Novel Still Come Home

October 1, 2019
Blister in the Sun Chapter 2 from Still Come Home, a novel by Katey Schultz The call center on base…
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Excerpt: Sharyn Skeeter’s DANCING WITH LANGSTON

September 27, 2019
The Audition “I’d heard that a great dancer, Tyree Jones, was holding auditions in Harlem for his new fusion dance…
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Excerpt: JENNY IN CORONA by Stuart Ross

September 24, 2019
The streets exist. People engage and watch where they’re going. There is intersection, more than one way. I get around…
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Excerpt: Alex Poppe’s MOXIE

August 28, 2019
By Alex Poppe As I hang up, a Mexican delivery boy plops a paper bag on the bar in front…
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Excerpt: Robert Krut’s THE NOW DARK SKY, SETTING US ALL ON FIRE

August 19, 2019
By Robert Krut DIVINITY Virus-blind, you stumble to an alley, under a lentil rainstorm, a preacher waves rudder arms to…
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Excerpt: Patricia Colleen Murphy’s BULLY LOVE

July 9, 2019
Aravaipa Canyon Walls tower. The squeezed water rushes. Coatimundi click up cliffs, their ringed tails bouncing. After five miles we…
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Excerpt: Rob Davidson’s WHAT SOME WOULD CALL LIES

May 29, 2019
Excerpt from “Shoplifting,” from What Some Would Call Lies: Novellas (Five Oaks Press, 2018) Standing in the aisle of her…
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Excerpt: Mary Ann Presman’s THE GOOD DISHES

May 13, 2019
Tall, thin, and fond of her gin, Florence felt pretty smug about reaching her seventy-fifth birthday with—as her internist proclaimed,“The…
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Y2K FM by Jessie Ann Foley

February 18, 2019
“Illusion never changed/ Into something real” —Natalie Imbruglia, “Torn” Dana crouches before a storage bin in a clammy corner of…
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The Floor Fan by Tony Bowers

February 15, 2019
Allen stood at the front desk of the Antioch senior home, thinking it had to be 110 degrees in there.…
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Hypertext Review Excerpt

February 13, 2019
Slimer By Chelsea Laine Wells It was a knee to the balls. Even though later Ricky said it was because…
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Hypertext Review Excerpt

February 11, 2019
Magna Comes Loudly By Megan Stielstra Here is how it would go: She’s waiting for the el, bag in one…
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