Lake of Myths
byI stood waiting for Father all afternoon; watching the sun sink down, turning purple, and the lakeshore shimmering in the afterglow. Swallowed up by…
Fiction
The Nature of Trauma: A Review of Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron
byAward-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott’s first book to be published in the United States, The Rain Heron, out this month from Farrar, Strauss and…
from The Rain Heron
byA FARMER LIVED, but not well. If she planted grain, it would not sprout. If she grew rice, it would rot. If she tried…
Sex, Politics, and the Tocantins River
by(Tocantins – Brazil, 1990) At four-twenty-four in the afternoon, the five dogs in the hard-packed dirt farm-yard were oblivious to the political meeting going…
How The Shore Rushes In
byHaving purchased the t-shirt from a thrift store downtown, Laura did not notice the stain on its front until the next day, when she…
THE REPLICAS
by“I will give; I will enrich; I will return to the world this beauty.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves We had planned since December…