Category: Ope Here
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Announcing Our Nominations for The Pushcart Prize
Hello, Dear Chum, Thanks for stopping by! It’s good to see you. It’s been a busy year—but the year isn’t over yet! We’re roughly a month away from the release of Issue 4, a whopping triple-issue print anthology featuring the best of the year, the winner of our annual Dead Herring Prize, and a whole…
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Best of the Net Nominations
It’s that time of year, friends! No, I don’t mean fall. I don’t mean Halloween. Certainly not Christmas! Best of the Net nominations! Unfortunately, Issue 1.3 came out a little later than expected and falls outside the window of consideration, but work featured in our first two issues were fair game! Without further ado, here…
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Laura McHugh: An Interview with the author of “What’s Done in Darkness”
Anybody who’s ever called the Ozarks home shares a particular heritage with the land itself in a way that is unique from the rest of the world. Almost a stereotype, we Ozarkians grew up catching lightning bugs, climbing trees, and tearing through the hills barefoot. We are born of honeysuckle and dogwood and baptized in…
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Ope!
Ope here, Excuse me. Pardon. You got a second? You know what I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about lately? Lately, I’ve been thinkin’ a lot about internal dialogue. I’ve been asking myself, Hey, Ope, what in the heck is going on inside people’s heads? Maybe I’m crazy, but all day long I look around and…
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Rooster Wails at a Midwest Crossroads: Alice in Chains Classics and Art for Art’s Sake
Maybe you remember (the era has become mostly a blur to me), but during the 1990s the Universe slipped into a real sweet spot. That much I remember. There was a beautiful synchronicity at work—or perhaps at play is more appropriate. I don’t want to call it The Grunge Renaissance because there was so much…
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Ope!
We all know about skipjack herrings and their obsession with those lights we see at night. You’re probably thinking we’re a little silly, throwing our bodies and everything we’ve got at what amounts to nothing more than an idea, or a curiosity. None of us knows what’s waiting for us up in space, and thus…
the water and the gills 