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Things Can Only Be Okay by Jeremy Benjamin There was a line of yellow light at the edge of the steel floor that shook and jolted. The rest was dark. Strapped to the floor, my wrists tied and a wooden board beneath my head, I could hear the diesel… All This Still Doesn’t Mean My Heart’s Not In It by Jacob Aiello You call me on my way home from work to tell me we’re all out of toilet paper and that I should pick some up before I come home. “But I just bought some last week,” I say. “How can we be out already?… This Isn’t Your Dream by Nicole Krueger “This isn’t your dream, it’s mine,” he said, slurping his double-shot espresso and peering at me through steamed-up glasses. I opened my mouth to argue but was distracted by the giraffe that had just ducked into the coffee shop. Its brown and yellow neck… By The Hour by Jeremy Benjamin Kyle told her what he wanted, and what he wanted was within the bounds of the services she offered. Nonetheless, she wrinkled her face when he specified his request. "What?” was spoken with attitude — Kyle wished he could reel it back.… High School Graduation Address by Alice Clark Let me just say this. I actually believed that a college degree was the key to happiness. Every culture has to have a salvation mythos, to stave off the suicidal thoughts, and I grew up poor enough that college was this mythos, and I…
The fiction fare provided by this issue of TinHouse fits rather simply into their political theme. Each of the four stories I read (the fifth story is an excerpt from a novel that you will find in full review here on the Portland Fiction Project… Alice Clark Reviews Salvation by Lucia Nevai Salvation is the story of a girl, Crane Cavanaugh. Crane is the heroine and the reader meets her as an impoverished girl living in a shack. She has two mothers a step-father, an older brother and an older sister. Religious fanaticism is a daily part of… Jeremy Benjamin Reviews The Dart League King: A Novel by Keith Lee Morris Keith Lee Morris gives the reader a portrait of a small town through the eyes of five characters all of whom are easily — or did I mean eerily? — recognizable to anybody who’s spent time in a small town. Of the principal cast of… |
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