by Free State Review | May 11, 2014 | Features
The neon strobes its metallic blue: Sister Fay. The palm reader picks out love and money at the lunch pail intersection of Reisterstown and Liberty Roads. Northward, Julianna Spallholz reads her own palm. She plays a few numbers, and once spent an hour lightly... 
by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Jan 24, 2014 | Spotlight
Making diamonds is a fairly simple process involving pressure (like that found at a depth of 100 miles), the elixir of time (about two billion years) and a little heat (1,400 degrees Celsius). Most writers spend their lives making diamonds from dead plants. As Billy... 
by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Jan 13, 2014 | Spotlight
What goes down must come up. For a poet with a food disorder, controlling the line is sometimes an art, and sometimes a coping mechanism. Contributor Julia Wendell descends from a long line of psychological misfits which include Jane Austen, Radclyffe Hall, and... by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Jan 6, 2014 | Repost
Trap Nest: Part One. 
by Jessica Lynn Dotson | Dec 19, 2013 | Spotlight
You’d think Paul Hostovsky were a nice boy since Santa puts so many presents under his poetry. There’s a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Anthologies, and six appearances on Verse Daily. If that doesn’t put some Norman in your Rockwell, Garrison...
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