“Christ ascended into heaven in his body, we are told, but all too often we poor mortals here on earth are left with ugly heaps of maimed meat and that constant, reverberating question: Why? Why? Why?” (King 81). When Jamie Morton was six years old, his smalltown of Harlow, Maine got a new minister. Reverend …
“Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness,” (Tintera 167). Best friends Lucy and Savvy were well-known and loved in their small town. Lucy married a handsome, rich man and Savvy was a friend to all, even friendlier with the …
“Here’s a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It’s from the Old English bereafian, meaning ‘to deprive of, take away, seize, rob’. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn’t to be shared, no matter how hard you try,” (Macdonald 13). After her father suddenly dies, Helen Macdonald decides to …
“What am I without religion? What am I without the safety of us?” (Jong 119). In Tamara Jong explores her life growing up and being a devour, practicing Jehovah’s Witness while also understanding the instability of her childhood and her father’s emotional distance and mother’s alcohol addiction as she comes to lose and understand herself …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “After all, libraries are for everyone,” (Berman Ghan, “Spectres of Biblioteca,” 19). The Library Cosmic is a collection of science fiction stories travelling through time and space asking readers about community, togetherness, identity, technology, and where we fit in all of it. Is …
“In my experience, you couldn’t truly understand the secrets of a house without understanding the people living there first,” (Uketsu 19). After the success of his last book, horror writer Uketsu has been getting inquiries from fans about their own strange buildings and if he might take a look at the floor plans to see if …
“I was going to get myself eaten. I could tell. It was just one of those days,” (Herman 15). There is a threat against Princess Melilot’s life, but she’s used to it. With a scary sorceress for a stepmother that makes Melilot and her magically superior stepsisters go on more and more dangerous quests, a threat …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “You wished for revenge. She heard you. SHE HEARD YOU. Do you understand? SHE! HEARD! YOU!” (Smith 11). After her Sister-Cousin dies on the Highway of Tears, a young Indigenous woman embarks on a journey with her na̱xnox to find the killer and …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “air escapes lungs / death punctuates / the body, this isn’t the scary part. / loving is. losing someone she loves is,” (panic wrap III, French 162). O and Z find each other during an acid rain storm becoming travelling companions and lovers …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242). After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals …
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