by Darah Schillinger | Jun 26, 2024 | Bubbler, FSR
My deepest wish is to share what I know about my ancestry, the love of my country and its people and traditions – the country of Iran. My latest book, The Any Dead, is a fictional take on one of my country’s greatest writers, Sadegh Hedayat, and his time as... 
by Darah Schillinger | May 21, 2024 | Bubbler, FSR
She wakes and feels the ice pick in her chest. The mountain climber is hacking away at her again. She feels the ice pick jam into her heart, feels the shards of ice slip and scatter into the expanse below. The mountain climber believes in speed. She... 
by Darah Schillinger | May 13, 2024 | Bubbler, Features, Spotlight
In art, sometimes what’s problematic about a composition isn’t readily apparent. Something is wrong—but what? Why isn’t this drawing working? As much as the artist stares at their work, and perhaps because they stare too much, the identification of... 
by Barrett Warner | Feb 13, 2024 | Bubbler
Eli Burrell is one of my favorite magazine contributors (Issue 2). We have almost nothing in common. He plays guitar, I smash them. He trims his face hair so neatly. I tend to look like a geranium after shaving. He believes in God. I believe in Chef Boyardee. He is... 
by Free State Review | Jun 17, 2014 | Features
There’s the Apocalypse, and then there’s Drucilla Wall. The whole world is a tree beside the house. Critters climb and live in it. Things with wings fly through it. Time is measured by it. Someone she loves stands beside it for a photograph. There he is, standing...
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