Fiction and poetry from the Great Lakes region
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. I’ve been tracking the Niagara Escarpment, a geologic formation that arcs from Wisconsin through upper Michigan and Ontario past Niagara Falls into western New York. In the Upper Peninsula, …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. Mine is a watery world. Mirages that swell the tales of fisherman as distant sailboats and canoes glide along the edge of a lake forgotten. Lake Erie, at the …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. Our lives play out indoors. We are caged animals and mostly we like it this way. The sensations of earthly dependence have left our bodies but they linger somewhere …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. Grandpa is usually quite the talker. There are only two things in the world that I know of that keeps him from talking to anybody and everybody still above …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. Heat shimmers off of the lake, creating a strange in-between place that catches my thoughts and turns them into prayers for iced tea. The sun falls onto my dark …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. It’s based on a real unsolved murder that haunted the town of Elkhart, Indiana in 1969. Content Warning: A graphic sexual assault is detailed in this essay. Did her …
This poem is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. We got 9 inches of snow after 4 was predicted. While driving home from work I pulled over to the side, knowing I’d get stuck, but a …
This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. I didn’t notice how drunk my coworker Erin was until she fell down for the second time on our way to Summerfest. Erin and I weren’t friends outside of …
BY JANE AFFLECK This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. After twenty-four hours by train and two by bus, I arrived in Peterborough, Ontario with two suitcases and a backpack weighted with books, laptop, and clothes. …
