“Art is a kind of play, and those who forget how to be playful are likely to produce art that is ever more mature and responsible and ponderous.” — Thomas Disch Zach Powers likes to play—at least when he’s writing. His inventions honor the humble delights of the old pulps, those tales of wonder and…
Christina Holzhauser comes from a speck of a town in Missouri called Portland, a once-popular shipping post located on the banks of the Missouri River. It’s the kind of place where daily events swell to mythic proportions by the time they’re recounted in the local bar the Holzhauser family has owned for close to 80…
This journal page was received via post from our field agent, and is reproduced here. Encyclopedia of Surreal Encounters Field Agent: Edmund Zagorin Reporting to: Maic López Sáenz
To narrate. v. To give a spoken or written account of. From Latin, gnarus: to know. Examples: The Iliad: the story of the Trojan War. The Odyssey: the story of the warriors’ return home. Snow White: the story of the death and the resurrection. Persephone: the story of the death and the resurrection. Sleeping Beauty: Nevermind….
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…
