Wild weaves through each of us, but the spirit of wild doesn't always rage. Sometimes it is the gentle, quiet moments alone in our souls that show us who and what we are. The spirit of strength,...więcej »
After everything he'd been through, all he wanted was tranquility. What he really needed was God.The horror of World War II caused Eugene Walker to lose his faith. After the war, all he...więcej »
With lush imagery and surprising syntactical turns, the poems in Doll Apollo merge mythology with close attention to the patterns, colors, and contours of the material world. Through the fig...więcej »
TOMMASOThe furniture district is my personal hell. I don't know my ass from an ottoman. But when a hot designer comes to my rescue, I realize my problems are bigger than ...więcej »
The villain isn't supposed to be king.I have a simple plan.Finish Royal Elite School and get into my dream university.One glance from the school's king...więcej »
Back in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago's South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L'Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, "Off...więcej »
New Orleans' Charity Hospital provides the setting for the horror and humor that transforms one of the first women surgeons from a naive southern girl into a competent woman surgeon.więcej »
"Mordecai" Ahasuerus whispered as he watched Zeresh dying on the ground. Do you think men really know and understand how their actions, and the choices that they make in their lives; do you thin...więcej »
Fractured Lit is looking for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading. We're searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the j...więcej »
Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote 'Todesfuge' ('Deathfugue'...więcej »
Judge Avery Lassiter is back-this time engulfed in a story of death, debt, and deception in Dallas. First, a wealthy Texas hedge fund manager, Cade Graham, is suspected of insurance fraud a...więcej »
"To make of bewilderment itself a world serviceable enough to live in-to imagine a way through: this seems the chief imperative of River City Fires, whose astonishing poems hover around fires bo...więcej »
Nicholas Theodoulos is an immortal savior in desperate need of saving. All the power, wisdom, and even the favor of the gods is not enough when 1,700 years of heartache have left marks on his so...więcej »
Conch Pearl weaves a cross-cultural narrative that reveals the damages wrought by colonialism and explores the healing power of art. Dede, a lonely twelve-year-old English expat, seeks ...więcej »