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The Hacks of Life [Book Reviews]
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Author Perry Busby in his novel, The Hacks of Life, transports the reader back to the year 1993. His character, Phil Jacobson, a young, African American programmer lands a prized position at a computer company, Intellect Technology, Inc. (ITI). Read more
Heartbroke and Lucky [Book Review]
Heartbroke and Lucky.Jane Terrell. YellowJacket Press: Tampa, Florida, 2019. This collection shows how travel can heal the heart. But these poems also embrace heartbreak in a way that powerfully resonates. In the book’s opening poem “My Only Husband” the loss is made clear, for “He’s a / conch shell, a straw hat, a rose bush,… Read more
Inventory [Book Review]
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In Stacie M. Kiner’s Inventory lost loves and loved-ones circle in a whirl of remembering. These moments are the painful ones most of us would like to forget, but Kiner reveals how these are life’s key moments we must never let go. Read more
this american life, #556: same bed, different dreams by Maggie Cooper
things he wanted: good coffee someone to dance with poetry enough money to buy a plane ticket to Spain Read more
Paul is Dead by Lenny DellaRocca
We scoured LPs like Sherlock Holmes with his spy glass and cocaine. And there they were, the lies: Barefoot Paul, 28 IF, Turn Me On Dead Man on the backward Revolution 9. Read more
Yellow House by Carlos Miranda
I live in a yellow house on the outskirts of town. No address, no postal code. Ask for me by name and everybody knows where I am. Read more
How Drowning is Supposed to Be by Tim Buchanan
It was mid-morning on a Tuesday, and already I was in danger of being late for work when I heard Enrique call my name from the bathroom. Read more
Madman Silencio by Ubaldimir Guerra
Madman Silencio Sometimes dem call me a madman but I see me self as sikarus as Kamau in him video style, Sycorax Read more
The Artist’s Model by Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
When the heating lamp below the tub snuffs out, I float in my swollen dress like I have each afternoon for months. Read more
Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage by Diamond Forde
Mildred’s Parents Accepted Her Marriage but my parents stress in secret. At the table in his single room apartment, dad serves us burritos hosed with ketchup, a mock on the salsa he can’t afford but won’t admit. Read more