Rusty Barnes's Blog: Fried Chicken and Coffee, page 37

Waiting for the Man, fiction by Don Jennings

He didn't flinch when the metal roof popped on the far side of the trailer. Just kept looking outside, eyes level, gaze steady. Fingertips resting lightly on the windowsill.  Cops has been watching Lester from the pine forest out back for days. Maybe weeks. It was hard to remember how long. Seemed like a century […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Mather Schneider Interview Reposted

Mather Schneider is a 40-year-old cab driver from Tucson, Arizona. He is happily married to a sexy Mexican woman. His poetry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has one full-length book out by Interior Noise Press called Drought Resistant Strain and another full-length coming in the spring of 2011 from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

First Water, fiction by Court Merrigan

  The sandcherries and chokecherries are in full blossom in their ordered rows along the boundaries of the set-aside and in irregular swathes branching into the grass, erect blossoms at full attention to the sun and the bees at them sluggish with pollen. They have brought shovels and hoes and are at work clearing the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Back on Track

Well, the site is up now, and I plan on new content–interviews, fiction, essays–here in the next few days. One of the ways I used my free time in the last month or so is to read. I will have much more to say on this book. It's a good one, all around, but I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Eureka Springs, fiction by Keyana Williams

When Wyatt enters the green trailer, Randall is looking at her picture on the six o'clock news.   A little girl is missing.  A black toddler—three or four years old.   Her tiny ears pierced with counterfeit gold, her toenails painted neon pink, and her afro-puffs tightened with colored rubber bands.  Randall sits on the couch in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Haze, flash fiction by Jarrid Deaton

It was a four-wheeler that took out Hasil Adkins in Boone County, West Virginia. Of all the death-dealing things in the world, all of the alcohol poured down his throat, the depression, the raw meat for meals, it was a kid on a machine that brought an end to the Haze. Just like D-Ray White's […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Cora Took it Good, fiction from Sheldon Compton

Cora drunk-dialed a third person, spoke about nothing, and barely heard replies, clapped her cell phone shut and sat in the floor. Into a plastic cup she poured four fingers of bourbon and popped the top on another Cherry Coke. She let a sip of the Coke spread out, a coating across her tongue then […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Poet Mather Schneider Interviewed

Mather Schneider is a 40-year-old cab driver from Tucson, Arizona. He is happily married to a sexy Mexican woman. His poetry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has one full-length book out by Interior Noise Press called Drought Resistant Strain and another full-length coming in the spring of 2011 from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

IWW Interviews Eric Miles Williamson

Lifted from Raw Dog Screaming Press, on Facebook.   Eric Miles Williamson will be writing a monthly column, Industrial Strength, for The Industrial Worker Book Review. Williamson is now a professor of English at the University of Texas, Pan American. He serves on the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle and is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The Memories Most Likely Going Through His Mind, fiction by Sheldon Compton

Ah, the needles will go in soon.  Minutes.  Seconds.  Then one at a time until inmate #5123, a man who has forgotten his name, will be gone.  But before that, he will consider the room, the people in the room and push all that away.  He will clear his mind and then remember the times […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...