Mirror
The really nasty ones, the killers, the rapists, the child killers and child rapists; the ones who have been held...
Fiction
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The dress she would wear was laying out on the bed. Hazel and Etta had both been good about lending...
Carrie
“Take it off, Carrie. We’ll go down and burn it in the incinerator together, and then pray for forgiveness. We’ll...
Not The Right Fit
He saw her hunched over the table, the fabric surrounding her like a moat. He failed to see the point...
Consignment Maternity
Odile had learned that a pregnant woman in need of cheap vestments had precious few options in Scotts Valley, California....
Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
Giacomo Leopardi and the Thin Veil Between Fashion and Mortality
The Romantic poem ‘Dialogue Between Fashion and Death’ is curious and resonating work that deals with the powerful connection between...
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee's seminal novel Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was published in 1941 with Walker Evans' poignant photographs at...
Siddhartha
Written in 1922, and later translated to English in 1951, Siddhartha is a seminal work by the German author Hermann...
The Sound and the Fury
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of grey light out of the north-east which, instead of dissolving...