Surprisingly Good Mike Chen Let me tell you one thing I learned about becoming a published author, a public figure of sorts. It feels terrifying enough thinking that a random person out there could be reading this heart-and-soul thing you’ve crafted—in my case, a father/daughter time-travel story called Here And Now And Then. It feels…
Rejected ‘Hard Times’ Headlines Michelle Cruz Gonzales Another Old, Bitter, White Guy Declares Death of Punk Women over 40 Wear Whatever They Fucking Want and the World Doesn’t End Singers of Female Fronted Bands Denounce Descriptor—Prefer “Male-Backed” Instead Menopausal Woman Flips Out on Man Invading Her Personal Space: Blames Inner Riot Grrrl Man on MUNI…
A Study in Light and Longing Erin Slaughter The first love of Sylvia Plath’s life was Vincent Van Gogh, the impressionist painter. Though he lived and died half a century and a continent away, she spent her teen years believing they were soulmates, tragically separated by space and time. She gazed out between the…
Rivet 17 Women over 40 Wear Whatever They Fucking Want and the World Doesn’t End —Michelle Cruz Gonzales Rivet 17 explores the many ways that what’s visible and what’s hidden affect our lives – sometimes for worse, or for better. You’ll find: a heavily redacted narrative on longing, an amphibian tasked with healing family wounds, a…
Harvard Love Charles Lowe My wife’s mom hangs laundry on a line stretching across the loose border between our kitchen and living room. She’s lived with us in Massachusetts for nine months since our kid was born. Ever since she arrived, our kitchen has had a funny smell: a mix of boiled milk, stinky tofu,…
