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Soil, poem by Joshua Michael Stewart
She needs to get rid of the revolver wrapped in the blood-splattered dress tucked underneath her driver’s seat. She parks the Chevy on the shoulder of a gravel road, the engine ticks in the morning blaze while cicadas drone their prayers. … Continue reading
'64 Suicide Lincoln, poem by RJ Looney
Daddy came home from work one Wednesday in July at 2 pm smelling like beer not talking to anybody after that he didn't stray too far away spending most of what would be his last year in Mam-maw's old tractor shed playing a Peavey Strat copy through … Continue reading
The Smoking Ban, fiction by Caroline Kepnes
Hannah missed the way things used to be. Now, if you wanted to have a cigarette at The Tavern, you had to walk out onto the deck. But it didn’t used to be that way. It used to be that … Continue reading
Six Seconds, poem by Mike Lafontaine
what do you have to say for yourself you say nothing what can you say words will either save your relationship or doom it but silence is key you say nothing do you have something to say to me you don’t you feel nothing more than nothing … Continue reading
Innings, essay by Jim Parks
I came by it honest, this business of writing up courthouse wars. It was what was going on that summer – forty summers in the past — in the heat of cotton season. They had disbarred the DA; the Sheriff's race … Continue reading
Interview with Michael Gills
Michael Gills was McKean Poetry Fellow at the University of Arkansas and Randall Jarrell Fellow in Fiction in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He earned the Ph.D. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of Utah. His work … Continue reading
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Lawless: Hillbilly gangster flick offers wild, violent ride
This sounds like a hell of a good time to me. Anyone see it yet? I've got many weeks of content to get on the site, but you'll have to bear with me for a bit. LAWLESS Jay Stone Galaxy Rating … Continue reading
Book Review: Hillbilly Rich, by Jeff Kerr, reviewed by Graham Rae
Whilst contemporary technology-overloaded society may have created a vapid and transient instantly-obsolete fad-app-and-gadget obsessed age, the human heart in conflict with itself is an eternal and unchanging part of life and literature. This is truism is acknowledged by writer Jeff … Continue reading
Interim Fun at FCAC with a Larry Fondation interview
Larry Fondation is neither Appalachian nor rural, but I find his fiction about the urban poor and disadvantaged a welcome tonic when I get tired of rural lit. He is LA all the way, and the author of four novels/short … Continue reading
Spite and Malice, fiction by CL Bledsoe
After Tommy took the PCP, KT told him to calm down three times; each time, she made a point of standing closer and closer to the shotgun, the first, moving across the room near it, the second, with her hand … Continue reading
