Love & Money & Strangers

Love & Money & Strangers

by | 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...

Tell it to the Birds

by | Mar 22, 2014 | events

We’re kicking off Spring with a celebration of our third issue. We’re tickled to bring you the best of the best in local art, local music & of course, great local writing! Readings by FSR contributors: C. L. Bledsoe Barbara DeCesare Elizabeth Hazen Jim...

Nikia, On the Rocks

by | Feb 10, 2014 | Spotlight

Love at first sight happens to most of us once in a life. It’s happened to Nikia Leopold twenty times. Architecture and painting—shape and color—inform her lines. In the space between the two, fantastic desire climbs hollowed out hand and toe holds. It climbs to...
Diamonds & Guatemala

Diamonds & Guatemala

by | 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...
Against Theme

Against Theme

by | Jan 6, 2014 | from the editors, Spotlight

If all we do is take a few words from each author then we’ve made the world a better place. From short story writer Shannon Cain I took arithmetic. I remember feeling appalled as she critiqued a colleague’s lecture about the difference between fiction and nonfiction....