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Bliss Montage

“Another self was needed to move into the future.” Author: Ling Ma Running the gambit from abusive relationships to surreal pregnancies, from secret worlds hidden in professor’s closets to intimate relationships with yetis, Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage is a psychedelic dream of melancholy and trauma, wrapped in a dispassionate voice that has seen it all before, and expects no better. While there isn’t a theme, per say, one might argue that a line of longing punctures each story: a longing to understand, a longing to be understood, a longing for justice, a longing for belonging, a longing for escape, a longing [...]

2025-10-24T14:24:38-07:00October 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |

What Kind of Mother

Cannibalistic Crabs and Missing Children Author: Clay McLeod Chapman Madi Price claims that she can read your future in the palm of your hand, but she really reads your needs, your emotions. Consider her a cheap therapist. A well-meaning liar, barely making ends meet, back in the hometown she forsook, trying to stay involved in her adult daughter’s life. Her daughter, however, is more interested in her father, who after years of abandonment has suddenly found religion, an ideal family, and is sanctimoniously perfect. It seems that Madi doesn’t have much to offer anyone anymore, and so she offers hope under [...]

2024-02-19T10:25:01-07:00February 19th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |
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