The Cinnamon Mother and Other Stories by James Warner You wrote to ask me about some folktales transcribed by the Silesian forest inspector Hertwig Oppeln. This trove of zaubermärchen was issued in a privately printed collection, a copy of which I found in a university library. Oppeln began transcribing these stories in the 1840s in…
Not one, not two, but three Rivet stories made the 2016 long list of short fiction in the Wigleaf Top 50. Not bad for our second year in publication! You can read the selected stories here: Vacation by Stephanie Golisch Meeting by Lael Gold Every Bird Casts a Shadow by Alexandra N. Kontes Congratulations to these…
from d r e a m e d, a dictionary Tori Grant Welhouse e • vis • cer • ate 1: She drew from her mouth, fletching down the arrow. 2: Letting go, the shot deprived the air of hesitation. 3: The strike point pierced the heart, lungs, inflating the woods with breath: woman, huntress….
Outside the Café Siamak Vossoughi They were in a café across the street, and so they had a view of the whole thing. The drunk fellow came out of the bar, and when he saw the red-haired woman, he smiled and opened his arms as if he knew her. It was five-thirty on…
The Alcove Robert Froese Lately he has been seeing faces where he knows there are no faces—in a pile of dead leaves, a laundry basket, a crumpled piece of paper, a cloud. Virtually anywhere. Sometimes the faces seem to stare back at him, sometimes not. And he has grown restless, doubtful in his thinking, suspicious…
