Interview: Gary Glauber
Tell us about yourself and your relationship with poetry. At first, poetry was a means through which powerful emotions could be channeled. Love, rage, and adolescent angst were grist for the mill...
View ArticleApril 1: Hacienda
Winter was most of the year. The river lost its primal significance, but a birthright, a vestigial belief, was that it was his duty to keep an eye on it, what floated by. The mill’s smokestacks...
View ArticleApril 2: Blowhard
His vanity plates read Foxy I. Just above the grill, The Silver Fox is stenciled across the hood . A tall van, a short man, his arms extended like an old-fashioned crooner’s, his silver hair slicked...
View ArticleApril 3: Complaints
Complaints led to accusations, accusations to publicity, publicity to investigations, investigations to litigation, litigation to expense, expenses to the poorhouse. This dumping could not continue....
View ArticleApril 4: The Price of Happiness
She said, “You seek out the safe middle ground, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference, with that tone of moral superiority; All those catechism classes convinced you no one...
View ArticleApril 5: The Thing Is
I. That’s when the whole purpose hips as excuse, would put others to never have perhaps regarded her other dog again. Obvious conversations wasting, going other than that… Fact of that as never pet,...
View ArticleApril 6: Passionate Decisions
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Teenagers belonged in institutions for the criminally insane. The secret to his success was keeping all his options open. The person...
View ArticleApril 7: Becoming Charlie Whiting
The boy’s education was long overdue: to thwart his true calling, For if anybody had a nature to begin with, it was one’s duty to deny it or whip it into shape, show it who was boss. Violating his...
View ArticleApril 8: Contest
“Go,” he said. Miles slammed Walt’s hand onto the Formica hard. Three water glasses leapt off and shattered on the floor. Silver Fox’s legs shot straight out, body parallel to the counter, victim of a...
View ArticleApril 9: Loop
To Charlene, nothing was more unnatural. Her secret as a waitress was to disarm people, to get them talking no matter who they were: the girls from the Academy of Hair Design, long-haul truckers,...
View ArticleApril 10: Power and Control
What does wanting have to do with anything? You learned what would happen if you did something you were afraid to do. How fast the car would go, what it would take to stop it again. You were surprised,...
View ArticleApril 11: Check
About the house: I wanted to buy out your share as soon as we’re married. You don’t have to marry him. I can do anything I damn well please. If you married her, it wouldn’t matter about this shitty...
View ArticleApril 12: Vineyard Haven
An island of rich people. A friend in high places. Summer House sat on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The cottage set slightly apart, a rose trellis up one side. In early morning, when the wind...
View ArticleApril 13: Coming Wisdom
The divorce was dragging on forever. The whole thing had been amicable enough. Some questions were better left unanswered. At least now Janine knew who Janine was, what Janine wanted and what Janine...
View ArticleApril 14: Beliefs
Grace’s Belief The Bible spells out one’s earthly duty: feed the hungry, give warmth to the cold, drink to the thirsty. Most important, give love to those who need affection. It was our duty. It was...
View ArticleApril 15: Acrostic
Exactly when had he fallen in love? Miles came to understand that responsibility could be enjoyable. Pull over, Roby. Into the damp darkness, where those dwell who have no hope or recourse. River’s...
View ArticleApril 16: Mr. Empire Falls
Red face. Recollected outrage. Confirmed dark suspicion. They all knew what was going on. They understood; you didn’t. They belong and you don’t. This town doesn’t seem strange to me. This town is me...
View ArticleApril 17: Proof
You aren’t changing, I’ll regret holding my tongue, A person is what she is. Sliding off her stool, Janine shouldered her tote bag then betrayed herself. Her mother’s chuckle… the evidence in plain...
View ArticleApril 18: Mad Chances
Marry the crippled girl. Don’t start in again. Ten million to split up. Money. I’d head down to the Keys. Good God. Pay me to go away. You’re supposed to help me out a little every now and then. The...
View ArticleApril 19: Questioning God’s Wisdom
God arranged things so that children often were given burdens far too heavy for them to bear. He had been thinking about life’s inequities, and his mother’s tendency to take them to heart, and act...
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