Lotería – Mario Alberto Zambrano
Fiction is never real, but good fiction is always true.
In Times of Facing Light – Eugen Ruge
Like an overcrowded social gathering where one is forced to meet many people on a superficial level, the book offers little insight into the motivations, incentives, and desires of its characters.
The weight of ambivalence is greater than any final oath.
But what, exactly, is man in the middle between?
Connections that arise not out of the expression of meaning, but from the feeling of not quite being able to fully communicate anything.
The story’s structure, mirroring the novel’s title, presents two narratives leaning toward each other with an inevitable intersection.
The Miniature Wife – Manuel Gonzales
How to make this strange, cold, cluttered world into something human.
Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles
“A room is a manifestation of a state of mind . . . We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us.”
Promising Young Women – Suzanne Scanlon
Scanlon implicates the reader in the same system that has produced these “promising young women,” “career patients” seen by their doctors as projects, fodder for academic papers, or books.
Safe as Houses – Marie-Helene Bertino
The stories in SAFE AS HOUSES read as a combination of rough sandpaper and its smooth result.