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10 Questions for Rachel Stone

- By Edward Clifford

Our ambulance pulls up to the white bungalow in Three Oaks, Michigan. The 911 caller, Tim Harris, is waiting for us outside his house. He circles his porch like a hound. I can see him from the back window, his hands stuffed into his blue slicker. Red Lights flash on and off his aluminum gutters. The other EMTs, Hector Téodora, Robbie, and Jae, unbuckle their seatblets, Téodora from the front seat. Téodora cracks the door to the back section and we jump out.
—from "Lights and Sirens," Volume 64, Issue 3 (Summer 2023)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I was trying to write a collection of short stories for my college senior thesis. I’d had a hard time coming up with ideas, and had a lot of dread about the...

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Home as Found

- By Lara Stecewycz

A Review of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence by Pam Petro (Little Toller [UK], 2023)

In her memoir The Long Field, Pamela Petro reflects on her early adult years, which were spent in Wales redefining old notions of home and rediscovering herself, through a quiet exploration of her own sexuality and a distant, closeted relationship with her parents. The book follows a semi-chronological narrative, which frequently jumps forward to the stories and mindset of a mature Petro, learning how to shape her life and surroundings, and then back to young Petro, still in search of herself. What ties...

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10 Questions with Nora Hikari

- By Edward Clifford

Listen hard! Do you cheek
a windchuckle against a cold
year? I promise you,
in a place with everyone
there is patience, and a warmth
ready to give you full home. 
—from "My Heartful Songlikes," Vol. 64, Issue 2 (Summer 2023)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I don’t really remember much of how the piece went - but I like to tell people that I started writing poetry to impress girls. It was some cheesy middle school love poem confession that I slipped into her locker. I never made any copies or anything. I wrote it down once on a piece of torn and folded notebook paper and dropped it at her locker between classes, and I haven’t seen it since. I haven’t the slightest...

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10 Questions with Karen Mok

- By Edward Clifford

Mimi herself wasn't on great terms with the ancestors. Her altar was stuffed in the corner next to the laundry hamper, a sweat-stained sports bra thrown hastily over the incense sticks. She hadn't made a chicken thigh or alcohol offering since Po Po's diagnosis three years ago. And she certainly would never risk burning paper money in her circa-1900s apartment building—the smoke alarm had a vendetta against her. 
—from "The Ancestors," Vol. 64, Issue 2 (Summer 2023)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
This is actually the second short story I’ve ever written! This piece wouldn’t be where it is today without Morgan Talty, whose mentorship shaped how I understand the short story as a...

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