IF MY BOOK: Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, Rachel Cantor
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Rachel Cantor writes about Half-Life of a...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Small Burning Things, Cathy Ulrich
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Cathy Ulrich writes about Small Burning Things,...
View ArticleIf My Book: Beer-Breath Kisses, Damon McKinney
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Damon McKinney writes about Beer-Breath Kisses,...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: From the Longing Orchard, Jessica Jopp
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Jessica Jopp writes about From the Longing...
View ArticleDeparture
Amy DeBellis At first, they leave slowly. We watch them go one by one: small silvery threads floating up from the earth like strands of spiderweb, moving gently towards the sky. My dad stands in the...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Mending What Is Broken, Robert McKean
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Robert McKean writes about Mending What Is...
View ArticleMother’s Cat
Michelle Nichols There was a tremble in the old woman’s voice over the phone. She told me her grandson had found Mother’s cat from one of my flyers. My sick grandson, she said in a way that made us...
View ArticleIf I Knew you Better, I’d Apologize
Tommy Dean To celebrate the divorce, her husband drove his new motorcycle up and down their oak-lined street, each rip of the engine a reminder of why she left. Early fall, she stood on the porch, arms...
View ArticleSharp
Laura Leigh Morris Someone gifted the girl knives for her thirteenth birthday. Before then, she bandied about with forks, butter knives, even steak knives, but once she became a teenager, the knives...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: The Neighbors We Want, Tim Lane
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Tim Lane writes about The Neighbors We Want,...
View ArticleBecause the World
Dinty W. Moore Todd hefted two grocery bags from the rear of his Subaru and cursed under his breath. It had been a terrible week. A terrible month. A miserable year. Emma, who’d been patient with his...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Cardboard Clouds, Benjamin Niespodziany
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Benjamin Niespodziany writes about Cardboard...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Tandem, Andy Mozina
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Andy Mozina writes about Tandem, his new novel...
View ArticleTourists
Katie Mazza-Phillips This happened in a candy store, mind you. Me, nearly forty years old, pushing a fifty-something bitch into a rack of taffy. She hit the display hard, flailing her arms around to...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Strip Mall, Matthew Thomas Meade
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Matthew Thomas Meade writes about Strip Mall,...
View ArticleVarnish Day
Neil Serven It was varnish day at the casket factory. On the sidewalk he was holding Evelyn’s hand when they caught a surprise whiff of polyurethane. They could see other faces scrinch as they...
View ArticleThe Girl with the Chopped-Off Hands: A Retelling
Allison Wyss I cut off one hand before I drew the circle around the apple tree and one hand after. Then I needed help. The chalk fell on the ground outside the circle. I was inside the circle and I...
View ArticleThe Mitten Tree
Emily Johnson They ask, what radicalized you? It was The Mitten Tree. It appeared every year, similar to the first snap of cold. It was a Christmas tree spanning two floors in height, in the lobby of...
View ArticleA Writer’s Desk: A Buyer’s Guide
Corey Farrenkopf A note they neglect to tell writers: choose the ideal desk. Something spacious. Maybe mahogany or walnut, some dark wood with the scent of the forest thick in the grain. Comfort is key...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Now It Seems That I’m Not All Here, Suzanne Burns
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Suzanne Burns writes about Now It ASeems That...
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