Misinterpretation – Ledia Xhoga
[Xhoga’s narrator] lives a double life, oscillating between a state of deep intimacy and complete isolation.
I kept dreaming of a book where there was genuine friendship between mother and daughter.
Telling your story doesn’t necessarily mean succumbing to the hefty weight of narrativization . . . reality is messy and incoherent—why not make stories that way?
What’s important about Bratton’s rendering of sex isn’t just that it’s true to life, but that it paints a complex portrait of a person with a dark sexual history.
This haunted house is both prison and protector, antagonist and ally. . . . Martínez seems to align this ambivalence with the downsides of vengeance itself.
Search Histories – Caitlin Farrugia
SEARCH HISTORIES . . . uses the form of Google searches to explore the contours of the human experience.
Coriolis – A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
Formally speaking, these are poems wearing one another as cloaks. They are not fixed in place, but instead carry their histories and seem to remain in process.
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits – Ben Berman Ghan
Ghan weaves together technical jargon and strikingly erotic organic language to depict the cyborg post-human as it goes forth and multiplies.
How much weirdness is acceptable and what becomes gross or nauseating? What is the limit? I find it interesting for the body too. . . What’s the limit of grossing out a reader and having someone stay with a story?
Mystery Lights – Lena Valencia
Through the process of stripping away parts of the self . . . the women come face-to-face with their own uncanny reality, however ugly. Ghosts do not give up easily.