reviewed by Isaac Fox Kyle Seibel’s flash story “As Planned, We Stopped for Sandwiches” begins in a mundane place: a St. Louis deli, where a family has stopped to eat […]
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“I’ll teach her how to say goodbye”: Review of Renee Zhan’s “O Black Hole!”
reviewed by Isaac Fox In Renee Zhan’s short film “O Black Hole!”, a woman (Loré Lixenberg) faces a very tragic, very commonplace question: How do I deal with the fact […]
“the angry seeds”: Review of Zoe Raine’s “When My Girlfriend’s Head Becomes an Orange in the Middle of the Night” (Invisible City, March 16, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Zoe Raine centers her flash story “When My Girlfriend’s Head Becomes an Orange in the Middle of the Night” around a relationship that is messy at […]
“the God of War exhaling through everyone’s lungs at once”: Review of W. Todd Kaneko’s “The Night of the Skywalkers” (Passages North, March 14, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox W. Todd Kaneko’s “The Night of the Skywalkers” is a series of “because”s—a string of answers to unasked questions, of causes without effects. The word “because” […]
Everyday Beauty, Everyday Bleakness: Review of Ted Kooser’s Red Stilts
reviewed by Isaac Fox Poets have been comparing stages of life with the seasons for a very, very long time. Over years, decades, and centuries, that metaphor has moved from […]
“lost in transit”: Review of Leigh Chadwick’s “The Story of a Marriage” (Cease, Cows, February 17, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Leigh Chadwick’s micro-fiction “The Story of a Marriage” is shorter than this review. In only 217 words, Chadwick distills a long-term relationship into a rich allegory […]
700 Rejections and Counting: Review of In a Flash!: Writing and Publishing Dynamic Flash Prose by Melanie Faith
Reviewed by Isaac Fox Nonfiction | Writing reference. 296 Pages. Vine Leaves Press: 2018. Available Here Every writer who publishes their work knows what it feels like to read a […]
“language is always an accomplice”: Review of Genta Nishku’s “basal rosette” (Prolit, January 31, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox Cover art: “The Economy Class” by Abhishek Tuiwala. Prolit, January 31, 2022. In her prose poem “basal rosette,” Genta Nishku shatters an American lifestyle into ten […]
“Doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, right?”: Review of Susan Yim’s “Hi _______, do you have a small minute to talk about your extended warranty?” (HAD, January 15, 2022)
reviewed by Isaac Fox About a quarter of the way through Susan Yim’s “Hi _______, do you have a small minute to talk about your extended warranty?”, the piece retitles […]