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Ella Enchanted: A book-to-movie review by Leticia Urieta
I am a girl raised on fairy tales, folktales and myths. I enjoyed these stories and the lessons that they peddled about being noble of character, yet as I grew older I became resistant to the...
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The Violet Crow: An excerpt + #giveaway from Michael Sheldon
How do you solve the ultimate mystery, where the murder victim has no identity and there’s no physical evidence? You go psychic—deep psychic—and hire Bruno X. Sure, you’re going to have to put up with...
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American Psycho: A book-to-movie review by John Wells
We live in the age – god help us – of 2 Girls One Cup, et cetera: a whole culture of you have to see this, the more disturbing the better. For a long while many of YouTube’s most popular videos were of...
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Review: The Roadkill Collection by Jon Sindell
Reviewed by Siamak Vossoughi You have to respect a guy who gets right to the point. I found myself pausing in amazement reading Jon Sindell’s collection of flash fiction, The Roadkill Collection, at...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Poseur: An interview with Doug Holder by...
Susan Tepper: You have written a mini-memoir, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Poseur – Boston 1974 to 1983, that is also a love story and homage to Boston. It takes place during the years 1974...
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Review: Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Reviewed by Emma Whitehall As a fan of both supernatural fiction and short stories, I have never been so excited for a release as when I discovered that John Ajvide Lindqvist – author of one of my...
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Black Heart is on summer vacation
Black Heart is taking a brief summer vacation! We’ll be back on September 7th. In the meantime, submissions will remain open, though our weekly posts will cease for the rest of August. If you’d like to...
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After the Gazebo: An interview with Jen Knox by Susan Tepper
Jen Knox is the Writers in Communities (WIC) Program Director at Gemini Ink in San Antonio. She also works as a creative writing instructor and contributes regularly to Fiction Southeast. Jen’s short...
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Open letter to Ernest Hemingway by Richard Hellinga
“Horney we’ve got to go on. We can’t ever go back to old things or try and get the old kick out of something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we remember them and they are...
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Mary by Phillip Rafferty
I depended on Mary to locate my veins back when I transitioned from smoking it to shooting it. Mary was not quite a nurse but close enough. Before she transitioned to the streets, she had done two...
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Filter From the End of the World by Mark Flehmer
An alert came in on my cell phone through a text message from the U.S. government. “The earth will explode in seven days.” I assume this is just a ploy to gain web traffic. What better way for the...
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Seven Easy Questions: An interview with Dani J. Caile
You may have heard of Dani J. Caile before. It could be because you read our previous interview with the Manna-X author here on our site. If not, well, we don’t know what kinds of dark alleys you’ve...
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Letter to Lorca by Nicole Henares
Dear Lorca, I can feel a pimple forming on my chin. I am 39 years old and still struggling with acne. It is said you struggled with this too. But the fascists murdered you at 38 and you never lived to...
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Let’s Talk: Kramer vs. Kramer + Plot
Recently on TV I saw the old film Kramer vs. Kramer, with Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman as “The Kramers.” I’d seen it years earlier and knew the gist of the story but didn’t remember very many...
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The Smiling Buccaneer: Long John Silver and the Creation of the Antihero by...
Long John Silver limps through Jim Hawkins’ mind long before he meets him. “Beware the one-legged man,” Billy Bones tells Jim, and Jim prepares to do just that. Chapter after chapter, Jim is plagued by...
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Dos Angeles: An excerpt + #giveaway from Michael O’Hara
Dos Angeles, the first in a franchise of mysteries featuring Paco Moran, puts the multicultural thirty-something ex-LAPD homicide detective turned reluctant private eye on the trail of a beautiful...
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Best of the Net nominees are in! Here are our picks…
Our 2015 Best of the Net nominees have been submitted for judging. Here’s this year’s list (in alphabetical order by author): FICTION Avenida Mañana by Denise Calhoun Vocabulary Lessons by T.L....
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Banned By Amazon: An interview with Anthony Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith is an English professor and novelist living in Minnesota. His most recent publications include a book so scandalous it was actually banned by Amazon, XXX Shamus (written under the...
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An open letter to Gene Wolfe by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Dear Gene, Fan mail is so obscene; we approach our god and froth at the mouth, like your Latro in Soldier of the Mist, come to the golden idol, memories fleeing like sparks… You fuck up so much shit...
View ArticleMarch to a Bestseller: All your favorite indie authors together at last
If you haven’t heard about March to a Bestseller yet, allow us to explain. This fun, free, online event is happening TODAY, and you won’t want to miss it. Why? Because tons of amazing, bestselling...
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