Story Behind the Story

Today’s post is written by Tom Ipri. We published one of his short stories in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “The Vacation Fight” by Tom Ipri “The Vacation Fight” is the love child of two other works-in-progress and one of several stories I’ve written inspired by my four years living in Las Vegas.…

Today’s post is about a short piece of creative nonfiction we published in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Red on White” by Lita A. Kurth For such a serious personal piece, “Red on White, Black on White” had a surprisingly light and irrelevant beginning. It happened one Friday morning during a writing workshop I…

Today’s post is written by Robert Peake. You can read three of his poems in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Three Poems” by Robert Peake For me, the spark of a poem can come from just about anywhere. My task is to kindle it by writing, to draw out its heat. Each of…

Today’s post is written by Thaddeus Rutkowski, whose short story “The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done” appears in our Fall 2013 issue. by Thaddeus Rutkowski Here’s a follow-up to the events in my story “The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done“: I went to see my orthopedist recently, not knowing what she would say. Would I…

Please welcome today’s guest, Jon Alston, here to tell us a bit about a piece of his flash fiction that we published in our Fall 2013 issue.  The Story Behind “I Asked a Color Once What Made It a Color” by Jon Alston I am a man of science. Always have been. Even as a…

Today’s post is written by Rebecca Rosenblum, whose short story “Loneliness”  (excerpted from The Big Dream, Biblioasis 2011 ) we recently published in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Loneliness” by Rebecca Rosenblum I wrote the story “Loneliness” towards the end of 2008 (and revised in 2009), so the backstory of it is a bit distant to me…

Today’s post is written by Aliza Einhorn, an emerging poet who graced our inaugural issue with her piece, “Love Song/Nostrand Avenue.” Roots Resistance by Aliza Einhorn Most of this poem is true. Not all of it, but most of it. I do live in Brooklyn. I did live on Nostrand Avenue. An old buddy had…

Please welcome today’s guest Eva Langston, here to tell us about the story she wrote for our Spring 2013 issue: Silver Man. The Story Behind the Story “Silver Man” by Eva Langston For many years I lived alone in an attic apartment on the edge of the New Orleans Garden District. Every morning before work I…

Today we’re taking a break from the Q&A with our masthead to bring you a post written by one of our contributors. Read Anne R. Allen’s poem “No One Will Ever Love Him,” (Spring 2013) and find out what event prompted her to compose the piece. The Story Behind the Poem, “No One Will Ever…