“The Story You Want, The Story You Need” by Ellen Rhudy: Halloween Special
Ellen Rhudy’s “The Story You Want, the Story You Need” is an elegant reminder that all ghost stories are stories of grief and longing.
Special Features
Special Feature: Two Erasures by Ted Snyder
Ted Snyder’s series of erasures and found poems is a stunning project, subversive, wily, and smart.
Special Feature: “Master’s Mirror” by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
In “Master’s Mirror,” Steinorth reminds us that the purpose of erasure poetry isn’t to erase, but the opposite—it is to reveal what has already been obscured.
“Cubby Safe” by Julianna Baggott
Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.