On the Brink
When readers of a certain age see the title of Amina Gautier’s story collection, The Best That You Can Do, they will instinctively recall the theme song from the movie…
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Cracks in the Foundation
…know if he is alive or dead, but they keep hoping because what is there to do but wait and pray for the day their boy returns home? The opening…
A Light on in the Mica Windows
…in third person, the poetry is richly informed by the Old Ones and by intuition, which she calls “the knowing.” The Old Ones opened the ears of Girl Warrior Tempering…
A Singular Life
…shortly afterward, her son Ben. Presley had met Michael Jackson as a child, a detail she’d forgotten but the singer remembered, and they reconnected in her early 20s. They fell…
Inspired by Nature
…— beside genius’ contribute to the making of an artistic life.” Thus, they devote more space than is perhaps necessary to the historical events that touched Masa’s life, including the…
Sinister Stories
…readers like me, who don’t frequent the genre, to a variety of crime writing and demonstrates the many ways crime can be featured in the short story form. The stories…
