Ever So Thankful We Are

You’re with your families and we’re with our families and we’re all so very thankful but we’re also sleeping in beds that aren’t ours or used to be ours and old wounds heal hard and dinner feels a long time away and before that there’s cooking and cleaning and dealing with people you’re probably related to by blood or marriage or sexual relations. Maybe these words will make all that a little better. Happy Thanksgiving!

Congratulations to Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz who received an NEA literature fellowship for 2011. Richly deserved!

xTx has a postcard and a little story up at Wigleaf. She also has words at Camroc Press Review. Fancy.

Also at Wigleaf, Vesuvius by Amber Sparks.

In Metazen, you will find James Tadd Adcox with a story with a very long title. He is followed by Joe Kapitan.

Typo 14 includes Anthony Madrid and Maureen Alsop. Wait, have we mentioned this? No matter. These are good poems.

Rusty Truck features two poems from David LaBounty.

NOO Journal 12 has dropped and you can find writing from Gabe Durham, Nate Pritts, and more.

At Dark Sky, this week we learn more of Sheldon Lee Compton and there’s also a great interview with Matt Bell at the Used Furniture Review.

Used Furniture Review continues to impress with Elaine Castillo, Ricky Garni, and much more.

Black Warrior Review 37.1 includes Blake Butler, Nate Pritts, David LeGault, Sandra Simonds, and others.

The Foundling Review’s new issue is a tribute to Writer’s Bloc a magazine that is truly missed. There you can find work from Robert Swartwood and  Eugenia Tsutsumi.

Pedro Ponce’s Alien Autopsy is available for pre-order from Cow Heavy Books.

More Vallie Lynn Watson at Metazen.

If you’re into magical realism, you definitely want to pre-order Alec Bryan’s Night on the Invisible Sun from Aqueous Books.

At Wigleaf, enjoy a fine, fine story from Chantel Louise Tattoli.