“A summer away from everything, where I could read my books without worrying about being called a freak and swim whenever I wanted to, felt like heaven,” (Fortune 32-33). Persephone Fraser seems to have an idyllic life. She’s made a name for herself as an editor at a popular Toronto magazine and owns a nice apartment …
“Lola was gone before she ever went missing,” (Jones 1). After Cam and Blair solved the missing murder case of what happened to Clarissa Campbell, they’ve sworn off amateur sleuthing. Being doxxed online, violently threatened, and getting sued can do that to a girl. That is until Mattie Brosillard, a freshman at their high school, begs …
“Many times there are no reasons that will ever make sense,” (Conlin, “Occlusion,” 145). Watermark is an absolutely astounding short story collection. Conlin writes characters that are so intriguing, who you both root for an try to understand, whose stories you desperately want to know. I love how some of the characters pop up or are mentioned …
“I once read somewhere that no man is an island. But I think maybe girls are,” (McCauley 35). Liv Whitlock has never known what home is. She and her twin sister have moved from foster home to foster home because of Liv’s own “volatile and violent” behaviour, but finally they’ve found a home with the Millers …
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation,” (Tartt 3). Richard Papen reflects back on his time as a student at Hampden, an elite college in Vermont where he studied in an elite class of six students with …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “We are all having / the same nightmare, overcome / by an invisible, relentless enemy / completely unable to protect ourselves,” (Connors, “Virus”). Patrick Connors newest poetry collection covers a variety of themes mostly connected to the Covid-19 pandemic. Connors touches on topics …
“Perhaps you don’t know this, my dear, but theatre can be very dangerous,” (Hammad 162). Actress Sonia Nasir comes to Haifa to visit her sister Haneen. It’s her first visit back since the second intifada, and she finds the Palestine of the present much different than her memories of her childhood visits. While staying In Haifa …
“A movie is a collection of beautiful lies that somehow add up to being the truth, or a truth. In this case an ugly one. But the first spoken line in any movie is not a lie and is always the truest,” (Tremblay 7). Only three scenes from the 1993 indie horror film Horror Movie ever made …
“I’m terrified…that there is no world, no scenario, no reality in which I’ll gracefully allow you to leave,” (Hazelwood 379). The alliance between Weres and Vampyres has been shaky for centuries, one that has disrupted into full-blown war and only sometimes pacified when a Were and a Vampire agree to a one year marriage to …
“An angel is a belief. With wings and arms that can carry you. If it lets you down, reject it,” (Kushner 242). Thirty-year-old Prior Walter has recently been diagnosed with AIDS and while undergoing treatment discovers that an angel is calling to him. Unable to deal with Prior’s diagnosis, his partner Louis leaves him and …
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