One season my stomach shrankfrom staying in bed for monthsso hungry. When bears hibernate, their bodies recycle to stayalive: reabsorbing urine, feces,like a dream each night. In those winter days,my stronger self recededinto that hole we all fear. Dirt from every angle. No onethinks so, but bears do wakein that shadowed cave, shifting to ward …
To be a child again. Is my wish. Something earthy and pleasant. Something before knowledge. Before. Me and the kids down the street making wooden gravestones with our names on them for Halloween, before we knew that one kid would die. How the gravestones lived with us years after, in the garage. Childhood, like a …
We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 19.2 with craft essays about and reviews of anthologies, including the following pieces: (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)
We are pleased to share this review by Emma Hudelson of Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond. …
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