Larissa Shmailo

    Sly Bang / hybrid fiction by Larissa Shmailo You knew this is what the world really looked like all along.   A review by RW Spryszak ISBN-13: 978-1947980983 Spuyten Duyvil – New York 2018 198 pages I have a problem with what is sometimes known as...

Fred Skolnik/Fiction

BASIC FORMS: A PROLOGUE   Each thing, insofar as it is in itself, endeavors to persevere in its own being. ─ Spinoza Now we know the language, and we’re fluent in it. ─ Philip Glass   The following is Chapter 1 of “Basic Forms,” the latest...
Larry Smith/Fiction

Larry Smith/Fiction

Photo by Sholto Ramsay on Unsplash   Beloved Uncle’s Hour of Need   by Larry Smith Contributor Unhappy people are America’s new underclass. You run into some guy on the street who’s just been fired from his job and has a family to worry about, and when you...
Steven Masterson/Fiction

Steven Masterson/Fiction

PHOTO BY DMITRY ERMAKOV ON UNSPLASH *** LUCY’S UMBRELLA   by Steven Masterson Contributor   Lucy pulled her arms down his thighs until her hands reached his knees and pushed herself to her feet. Picking up her bag, she walked into the bathroom, closing the...
Perle Besserman/Fiction

Perle Besserman/Fiction

Photo by Jeffrey Blum on Unsplash *** The Touch   by Perle Besserman K arin doesn’t like Carl’s best friend Benjy, and she doesn’t want to join them in a game of poker, but she doesn’t say so because Benjy (who has come to live with them after being thrown out of...