“Object Lessons,” by Erica Plouffe Lazure In the remotest region of Bihar, on the dustiest of backstreets of Bodh Gaya, dozens of children surrounded Juniper Weaver as she attempted to track down what she hoped was their school. But no one could tell her, exactly, where to find it. Still, little boys in hand-me-down […]
Excerpt from Erica Plouffe Lazure’s “Proof of Me and Other Stories”
April 20, 2022 by Leave a Comment
“In the City of Murals,” by Blake Sanz
November 24, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The following is chapter from Blake Sanz’ book The Boundaries of Our Dwelling, reprinted with the permission of University of Iowa Press. In the first days of the couple’s unlikely marriage, it became the airbrush artist’s habit to follow his American wife about the tiny kitchen of their rented house, daydreaming aloud to her in Spanish as […]
Excerpt from “Coventry,” by Joseph Bathanti
September 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: Italics appear in the original. From Chapter 51 in Coventry One afternoon, Papa and Frank and I were out fetching a convict named Tombs. He’d been gone the better part of three hours before we got started after him. Papa was never in a hurry. It was his theory that a run […]
“What Got You Here Will Not Get You To Your Future,” by John Englehardt
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The following is an excerpt from John Englehardt’s novel, Bloomland. The most unflagging woman you will ever meet enters your life during sophomore year of college, the same time you stop believing in God. What this means is the zealotry that has been ingrained in you—the kind that has involved obsessing over sin and faith and […]