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 14, 2020 | SFK Releases, Wherey'at?
“The Escape to Candyland covers the everyday extraordinary with characters whose struggles and small victories are authentic. Not to be missed!” —Melanie Faith, author of In a Flash! Writing & Publishing Dynamic Flash Prose “Takahashi captures a mood,...
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 29, 2020 | Stories, Vol. 3, Issue 5
Forests collapse under the serrated jaws of the beast devouring the land and sky, curdling the atmosphere with its rabid hunger. It leaves graying pillars of salt and bone and crumbling buildings in its wake. When the air calms, it’s thick with strings of dust motes...
