1. Out
No matter what the disembodied chose at the end of the incarnate line, they regretted it upon return. Doreen ordered her workspace as she began her shift. She lined up her parting gifts, lip gloss tubes, stress rings, portable metal straws, and reusable bags on one side of the desk and her stack of clean paperwork on the other. She thought for the millionth time how the liminal space between lives really needed an interior designer to splash it with color, or at least add some throw pillows. You had to focus on the souls themselves or you’d die again of boredom staring at the pale gray hall, absent of texture.
Read More“When Katya interviewed for the job at the cloning project station, they gave her a tour of the facility. It was located well outside of Yakutsk, accessible only by truck. She rode in the bed of the truck on the ride out from the university, her back braced against the side and her feet sliding across the rutted metal of the bed.”
Read MoreAt its best, her detail-oriented prose captures a certain chilling, unglamorous mundanity in the way habits drive the characters’ choices while living with domestic violence.
Read MoreWyoming summons a host of ideas about working-class people in hard times, about people doing bad things for good reasons, about the choices one makes when there are no good choices.
Read MoreJung Young Moon hasn’t exactly transformed Texas into a magical place, but he has used the state as an inspiration to manipulate words in magical ways.
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