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Favorite poem: "You Were Like One of Those Zoo Animals" by Mary SzybistFavorite story: "Stay Here" by Maxim Loskutoff or "Pecking Order" by Bennett Sims
I really wasn't impressed by this issue, but it had some stuff I liked. I thought it got much better towards the end. Had they orgainzed it a bit better instead of just throwing everything in alphabetical order, it could have been much stronger.Amie Barrodale's fiction/non-fiction hybrid, "Snakes in the Lobby" about fertility and alcoholism amoung other things was really well done. A very accurate picture of that mindset. I felt her pain and it was infused with some great humor. Nyssa Chow's "Ho...
This was hit-and-miss for me. Favorites: “Music Night” by Natalie Bakopoulos, a short story that really captures the ambiguity central to some of our most potent relationships. “Cynthia La’Gail” by Tameka Cage Conley, a poem about a mother’s growing estrangement from her daughter. “How to Become a Monster” by Nyssa Chow, a literary nonfiction story about the author’s boyfriend’s corruption in the Trinidad police force.“Far North” by Alison Prine“Milk Blood Heat” by Dantiel W. Moniz“On Extinction...
I have to admit, after edition after edition of rave reviews, the Spring 2018 edition let me down a little. Not that there aren't stories inside that of themselves would rate 4 or 5 stars, but as a collection, this one was a little all over the place. Editor Lan Samantha Chang devotes only three paragraphs to her introduction so it's hard to know what theme she was working with or what she was going for (if anything at all) in putting these particular pieces She speaks of the possibility of dime...