Nathan Holic discusses form and function in I Have Blinded Myself Writing This, by Jess Stoner
Vanessa Blakeslee offers up a writer exercise, and a poem.
For the Republic of Heaven is like if two guys were trying to scale one of those tall narrow rock columns in the Southwest or somewhere…

It’s taken two years of being “normal” to return to the VA Medical Center. “Normal” is what the psychotherapist told me. One year out of the military, inactive, and treatment felt like a healthy choice. Two years later, it feels like a necessity.
J. Robert Lennon discusses genre fiction, Ithaca, his new book, Tweeting, and more.