Four Tin House Covers

I subscribed to Tin House this year. Tin House is a publication that puts out the very best of short fiction and poetry, and getting published there is a sing that you've "got it". The stories are all of the highest quality. Each print issue is also a precious item in it's own right, and…

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“Too Ugly to Rape”

This is powerful poetry, the best I've heard in a long while. I just wish the spark that brought it's creation had been a more pleasant one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQRkHcEyq8 Transcript (taken from Pages' Facebook page): “Piñatas” After Tina Mion’s “Pinata” painting To the man on the bus I overheard tell a woman in conversation - presumably…

I Live in the Land of the Midnight Sun

And here I am. Reading outside, by the light of the midnight sun. Yes, the photo is taken at midnight. And yes, I was able to read perfectly well. Iceland is positioned in such a way that in June the sun shines almost perpetually. I am writing this now, just after midnight and I hear…

Dreamcatcher

Sometimes, during the darkest night, I am forced to get up. I walk, sleepdrunk, over to the door and take down a dreamcatcher now sagging on a nail by the door. I take it outside and walk out to the river that flows silent but strong behind the house and I shake the dreamcatcher over…