40th Anniversary Feature: KING OF HEARTS, QUEEN OF SPADES — an excerpt from Hex
By SARAH BLACKMAN BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 2005-2006 My father stared at me. You can imagine: his hands on either side of his plate, his chop growing gray as it leaked into the peas. We sat that way. Then my father lifted his fork and knife and cut a bite out...
40th Anniversary Feature: ROTHKO
By LOUIE SKIPPER BWR Guest Poetry Editor, 1978 I flew into San Francisco on the Monday night before 9/11, the unthinkable becoming that point where beginning has no choice but going on. Planes grounded, I spent days in front of Rothko, his great canvas...
40th Anniversary Feature: WE’LL BE ALIVE FOR MARS
By KATE LORENZ BWR Editor 2009-2010 Carla is on a dinner date, sitting across from a man her work friend has set her up with. This is an unusual scenario, since these days a person usually consults the internet to find a potential match. The internet algorithms...
40th Anniversary Feature: BLOOD
By LUCAS SOUTHWORTH BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 2007-2008 In the weeks after the murder, the world is silent, motionless. Blood or the possibility of blood covers everything. It marks the white shirts hanging in the closet. It sinks into cracks on wood floors....