The Gateway Review Quotes

“The wild abundance of air around her gave her a strange tingling feeling right in the places where shoulder blades end and before spine begins. -The Girl with Dragonfly Wings”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“Afterward, she would finally come to understand what it meant to be human, what it felt like when the wrong man loves a woman, how the touch of a hand on her back--placed at the exact spot where the shoulder blades end and before the spine begins--can feel like the way that wings beat in the darkest part of the night.”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“The old woman had been bent over a patch of heirloom tomatoes, their aroma seeping up into the air, making indiscernible patterns on the sky. -The Girl with Dragonfly Wings”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“She felt time in the lean muscles in her thighs and rounded bottom when she pushed herself off the ground. She felt time in the way her arms and legs pumped when she walked into the river, bathed herself in the cool reflected surface of the dark pool under the waterfall. Josephine felt the possibility of time the night she watched the couple bend, release, break, and come back together on the trunk of the hundred-year-old tree. -The Girl with Dragonfly Wings”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“The old woman with the shimmering hair knew her time was ending as well; she felt it in the unsteady thump that her heart now made, in the way that her eyes no longer wanted to open in the mornings, in the labored breath she had while doing nothing more than sipping her buttercream coffee. Her life had been a series of hazardous mistakes and misfortunes, bad choices and even worse men. She thought that if she could just make one right choice, one last ditch effort at redemption, to choose the way she left this world, to transform herself, if only for a day, then maybe it would make up for all the lost years and loneliness she had felt. -The Girl with Dragonfly Wings”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism

“As she watched them move and bend their bodies in the same way the water curved and slid its way around the river rocks she found it hard to breathe. -The Girl with Dragonfly Wings”
― Shilo Niziolek, The Gateway Review: A Journal of Magical Realism