I am sitting in my mother’s red Bonneville station wagon. Mamá’s hair is still black and long and flows over the back of the seat.
Cues
This is your stage manager. If you haven’t already, please sign in. My attention flips between the pages of a nearly failed history midterm and the unopened prompt book, today’s bible. I open the binder, and my fingers glide over the script—sound and lighting cues, lists, drawings, and contact sheets. The booth is dim and … Continue reading Cues
Les Chanteurs
"Sometimes, when your windows are open, I hear you singing."
“Short, colorful, Twilight Zone-y Tales”: An interview with Ben Loory, Sudden Fiction guest judge and author of Tales of Falling and Flying
I decided early on that I was going to write my stories...in my own voice, my own words, with my own sense of humor and my own actual grammar and peculiarities of speech… everything exactly the way I would tell it.
The Drive to the Crematorium
On the drive to the crematorium, I think I make peace with your death.
An Element of Sacrifice: Interview with Emily Dezurick-Badran, author of Issue 41 story “Remainder”
Sacrifice can be this totally joyful choice that people make, which is something that I've come to terms with more, recently.
Haunted Home
The ship features a recreation of a slave ship's hold. The cruise prides itself on it. It is not a good recreation, if the metric is realism.
A Love Letter to Poetry: Interview with Annie Williams, author of Issue 41 story “Pillow Practice”
This character, she treats dating and writing very similarly.
I, Iris
I am Iris, I thought. Iris is me, and Iris is in the wrong lane.
Being Led by Joy: Interview with K-Ming Chang, Author of Issue 41 Story “Haiyang”
I wanted to bring water into these places that are sterile or dry or drought-ridden.
BERKELEY FICTION REVIEW 