The Magician’s Trick/Bill Mesce, Jr.

The Magician’s Trick/Bill Mesce, Jr.

Photo by Rob Potter on Unsplash *** The Magician’s Trick: Telling, Not Showing   by Bill Mesce, Jr. Possibly one of the most cited maxims in writing is, “Show, don’t tell.”  And like most writing maxims, this is worthwhile more-often-than-not advice, but...

In Hubble’s Shadow/Book Review

In Hubble’s Shadow by Carol Smallwood Shanti Arts, 2017, Brunswick, Maine 98 pages, $14.95, paperback https://www.amazon.com/   Review by Jennifer L. Dean T he early 90s were exciting and troubling times—the Berlin wall came down, and the Iraq War began. A Gen...

Hunger and Hallelujahs book review

  Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9   Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp The unnamed Irish girl at the heart of the nine flash fictions that make up Philip Elliott’s...

Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”

“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489   By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...

Judith Skillman/RD Armstrong Review

      Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems from a Haphazard Life by RD Armstrong $20.00 USD + shipping, 246 pp   A Review by Judith Skillman In RD Armstrong’s Orphaned Words, we find a rare honesty, beginning with the poet’s forward: “If it weren’t for...