45.1 Sneak Peek: “The Whole Girl Detective Thing” by Cathy Ulrich
The Whole Girl Detective Thing Cathy Ulrich from BWR 45.1 On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, the girl detective is kidnapped, thrown into the trunk of a long car. The girl detective bucks her hips, scrabbles with her fingertips at the trunk lid after it is slammed...
A Review of THE GROTESQUE CHILD by Kim Parko
THE GROTESQUE CHILD KIM PARKO 2016 Tarpaulin Sky 250 pages Review by RBrown “The new world was brought down by your quakes and leveled by your wind and sunk by your flood. Some of your children managed to survive and they floated below us and when they saw you in the...
“It was the kind of fever in which want burns”: A Review of Rebecca Aronson’s GHOST CHILD OF THE ATALANTA BLOOM
Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom Rebecca Aronson 2017 Orison Books 80 pages Review by REILLY COX Story teaches us that, when it comes to our demise, we have options. Accounts differ. Homer is killed by either a turtle dropped by an eagle or by a riddle about sea...
The Best Lighting for My Body Was at the White Horse Inn and Bar, Oakland, California
“I am moved by the geography in this piece. Not just the geography of a landscape — also the geography of body, of gender, of family. The speaker enters with high stakes and manages to traverse the entire narrative with the stakes remaining high, emotional, and...