7527 Meadow Lawn by Matthew Guzman has the feel of a Chris Ware comic: silent, morose, damaged. There’s sound but even that feels muted and cold. In fact, the only real sound is that inside the nameless little boy’s head. Even the constant use of the copulative works toward hushed repression. Send your flash...
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I’ll make it easy for you: Five reasons why you should submit your work right now to flashfiction@sacurrent.com. Free critique. Even if I don’t select your work, I will email you back with comments and suggestions. Add to your resume. If I do pick your work, you’ll be a published writer. Use it to...
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I wondered, when I read this story, about the narrator’s tone. He didn’t seem upset, really. More exasperated. Or resigned. Or something not quite either of those. Is there a pettiness here? I think there is (I mean, he wanted her to outlive him so he wouldn’t have to live alone)! And of course...
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Introduction What I like about Eric Smith’s story “5 Minutes before Nagasaki” is that the title really does encompass the piece. By showing just a few lives, random but interlaced in the grimmest possible way, Smith reminds us of the devastation we wreck on one another. The disjointed quality of the narrative proves to...
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¡Ask a Mexican! ASK A MEXICAN: Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the “Fast and Furious” scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of... By Gustavo Arellano 5/19/2013
Chris Perez, husband of slain Tejana icon Selena, tells of romance, suffering Arts & Culture: In one of the final chapters of his book To Selena, With Love (out March 6), Selena's widower Chris Perez mentions that Abraham Quintanilla, his former father-in-law, once... By Enrique Lopetegui 3/7/2012
New Cove Bar is the Latest to Step Up Craft Brew Offerings in SA Nightlife: Believe it or not, The Cove co-owner Lisa Asvestas was once a Coors Light drinker. “Seriously, Coors Light,” she said with a hint of contrition... By Michael Barajas 5/15/2013
'The Flu Season' Arts & Culture: A quarter of the way through The Flu Season, Will Eno’s 2003 absurdist exercise set in a psychiatric hospital, patients in the TV room watch a report on how an entire family fell through early-winter ice and died. Skating on a thin dramatic surface, the pla By Steven G. Kellman 5/17/2013
Evanescence comes back strong while keeping Jesus (mostly) out of it Music: Suuuure… It was all “a misunderstanding,” as Evanescence singer/main force Amy Lee says of the band’s Christian identity of yesteryear. By Enrique Lopetegui 10/12/2011
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