by Black Warrior Review | Oct 21, 2013 | Archive, Feature
BY AMBER VOGEL The passengers gather. The conductor smokes The last of his cigarette, leans from the door, And flicks the end away. Your steps Quicken. You are clutching your ticket And your magazine. You stop. You wheel Round, panicked by yet another Vagrant...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 16, 2013 | Archive, Feature
by JIM HILGARTNER BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 1996-1997 Cutting cordwood on the ridge Where the wind sweeps snow From fallen leaves and bracken, I paused, and stood holding the saw. Blue mountains shone Distant in the blue air. And at my feet an old plow horse,...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 14, 2013 | Archive, Feature
By DAN KAPLAN BWR Editor, Fiction, 2003-2004 What is that jingle again Who is roofer to the world. Re: Beethoven and the electric toothbrush: not true. Over the afternoon, masses disagree with heat. How easily it fits into any briefcase or purse. What we are...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 11, 2013 | Archive, Feature
By B.J. HOLLARS BWR Genre Editor, Nonfiction, 2008-2009 From the interior of The Shadow Room, I watch his shadow fade. Though not yet two, Henry understand the intricate process: how we tuck ourselves into the darkened room in the children’s museum, slap a...
by Black Warrior Review | Oct 9, 2013 | Archive, Feature
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...
