by TNSF | Feb 17, 2020 | SFK Releases, Wherey'at?
An excerpt from “You Are Needed Everywhere,” in Yong Takahashi’s collection The Escape to Candyland: “I have decided to name the baby Amora,” I say. “Amora?” she asks. “Is that Spanish?” “Yes, it means ‘love’.” My lip trembles and I look up from her...
by TNSF | Feb 12, 2020 | Reviews, Vol. 3 Issue 6
Emerald City by Brian Birnbaum ISBN: 978-1950122004 Dead Rabbits Books, Sept 2019 416 pages, $18.99 Late in Brian Birnbaum’s excellent debut, Emerald City, a young man signs to his deaf mother, “I’m trying to tell you that I’m unhappy” (378). Without so much as a...
by TNSF | Feb 7, 2020 | SFK Releases, Wherey'at?
In this debut collection of short fiction, secrets, all-embracing conversations, dreams, disappointments, and familial conflict provide a never-before-seen portrait of the city of Atlanta. What is the message hidden behind a polite smile? In Yong Takahashi’s Atlanta,...
by TNSF | Jan 15, 2020 | Reviews, Vol. 3, Issue 4
Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy ISBN 978-1-950413-03-4 Press 53, April 1, 2019 9 x 6 paperback, 84 pages The neighbor’s poppies have turned dusty. The day’s end breathes this, another storm. […] What was here is now gone. This evening we inhale the dry skin of...
by TNSF | Dec 4, 2019 | Vol. 3, Issue 1, Volume 3
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Hairstyles. Speed limits. Greenhouse gases. And this cutting board – a recent gift purchased there by my daughter, a born-and-bred Georgia girl with indigo eyes and a penchant for digging up rocks in strange places. A coffee cup bearing...
