[Editors’ note: This post will be our final miCRo for this calendar year. See you in January 2019!] Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “Invocation,” Miriam Bird Greenberg invites us to consider language’s sonic sorcery as both a portal to and extension of the natural world. Gesturing toward Denise Levertov’s poem of the same name, …
Just a reminder that you have four more days to take advantage of The Cincinnati Review/Acre Books holiday pack! For only $20, you get a one-year subscription to the CR, plus one of two Acre Books titles (your pick): The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist: A Novel, by Michael Downs or …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: In Jen Michalski’s lyrical poem-story, precise language delivers a fragmented, image-driven narrative that mines the space both on the page and surrounding the missing: “False starts: a wallet in the weeds, corpse-like shadows in coves where waves hackle through the water, bite the sand, and lurch away. Security footage, grainy …
Editorial Assistant Afsheen Farhadi: In issue 15.2‘s “Gil Butsen Ford,” Steve Amick dramatizes the logic of advertising—the promise to deliver happiness as balm for the consumer’s deepest pain. This is found in the language of advertisements, which often use words like love, kindness, family, words out of place, too weighty and meaningful for the exchange …
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: When reading through miCRo submissions, I always find myself drawn to stories that blur boundaries; boundaries of form, genre, time—you name it! In “City Magic,” Julie C. Day introduces us to a protagonist who straddles place, time, and reality. Pamela is stuck between the forest and the city, the …
As the days get shorter and the weather gloomier, we’re staying upbeat with cute animal photos and copious amounts of caffeine, and by reading through our past issues to select nominations for the 2020 Pushcart Prize anthology and for Best Microfiction 2018. The final decisions weren’t easy. We’ve published so many amazing voices over …
Our train broke down in the frozen heart of the taiga. At first we were startled. We had grown accustomed to the relentless presence of the engine, the way that it throbbed beneath our toes and thrummed through our veins. When we tried to rise, we stumbled and then tried again. How strange it was …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: Chris Haven’s “The Griefbearer” is a fable for our time. The premise is enticing: someone to experience our loss for us. Who wouldn’t want to escape the pain of grief, to be able to hoist it onto another person? Who wouldn’t want to, as the collective narrator says, “live a …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: In Vanessa Cuti’s “Your Future,” she provokes the reader to fill in the white space around the narrator’s dinner with a prior acquaintance. Familiar in its outline, vivid in its detail—”[The toothpicks] were bent and wet, and the wood fanned at the edges where he had jammed them between his …
Issue 15.2 has arrived in our offices! We’ll be mailing it out to contributors this week, and subscribers will see a nice shrink-wrapped package in their mailboxes sometime soon too. In honor of its release, we’d like to share a special feature: an appreciation of the play included in the issue: The Strangers, by christopher …
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