I glance out across the water as you say, “Look, you can almost see the US.” I answer, “Do I have to?” fearing that my…
By the time the sap rose too early in the oaks and all the frogs in Tawas Bay began singing erratically, it was too late…
Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews
Whisper, Not a Shout: A Review of Collen Alles Close to a Flame
In her collection Close to a Flame, Colleen Alles demonstrates that not much out of the ordinary must happen in a story for it to…
Susan Azar Porterfield grew up in Chicago and has spent her career teaching and writing in northern Illinois. Voice/Poems, published by Trio House Press in…
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Perch Sandwiches, Baby Steps, and Other Memories of Growing Up on the Great Lakes
In western Lake Erie, on the south shore of Kelleys Island, a limestone rock covered with petroglyphs holds a few clues as to the first…