Wolf’s Daughter, Part 2
IX: Frideborn's Cave Reanna came back to her senses, and as she did so, she looked down at the little stone in her hands. It had transformed and…
Wolf’s Daughter, Part 1
I: A.D. 1050 “Give me a sword and shield, Father. I’m ready to go raiding.” Reanna the Red was her nickname, due to her fiery red hair, but her true…
Blue Beard, Black Heart
a modern retelling of “Blue Beard” by Charles Perrault Once upon a time at the mall, there was a guy named Ron that everyone just called Blue Beard…
“Sometimes it Yips Back,” “The Feast and the Beast,” “Silly Love Poems,” and “Writing is Easy”
Sometimes it Yips Back A 2019 response to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” I. Generations apart, and yet the cards know that same old feeling---and speaking…
War in the Spring: A Review of The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Little, Brown, and Company, September 2012) “So, what drew you to this novel?” asks my roommate. “Well, you see,…
“A Dream in May,” “At Fate’s Behest,” “Hostel on the Coast,” and Other Poems
A Dream in May A dream back in May Said that I was a guest in a house And the house was filled with water Except for walkways, more like catwalks In…
“Comic Book Heroes,” “Imagination,” “Quiet Jazz Nights,” and “It’s That Weird Time”
Comic Book Heroes All he talked about was Comic book heroes And movies He knew all the good ones by name And he struggled, and I struggled With…
The Ankle-Snatcher in the Blackout
When I was a kid, I was scared of that thing under the bed; I imagined it being slimy, the arm of the Swamp Thing, with huge claws. That was a long…
“Stand-In,” “Magic,” “Four Princes I’ve Loved: An Ode,” and “Momentum Trials”
Stand-In This bus stop has to stand in For a holy place, in the suburbs--- It covers, shelters like a canopy Its glass covered with advertising…
A Case of May
So as it turns out, ghosts have rules. Oftentimes, the people they’d been had died suddenly, unexpectedly, or in some extraordinarily horrible way.…
