Survivors of the Hive, Jason Heroux

26Mar24

The opening story in Survivors of the Hive by Jason Heroux (Radiant Press) has a newly minted private investigator interested in the idea “silence is on the verge of extinction,” in a story that pauses to note some of the banal details we use to keep silence at bay: “I looked at the screen. My […]

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I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? By Nolan Natasha

04Mar24

Personal relationships feature strongly in I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? Our attempts to connect are poignantly portrayed in the opening poem, “Walkie-talkie,” but a reader assuming these are simplistic poems just because they’re reasonably accessible would be mistaken. In “Rental Car,” it feels to me like our tentative hold on life gets […]

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