by Joseph Scapellato | Sep 16, 2014
When it was happening I was alone. I didn’t think of my wife, of how her and I suspected she was pregnant (she wasn’t, but by the time the period came we’d both said a brace of big ugly honest things that had made the other think, These big ugly honest things you’ve...
by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 23, 2014
Last semester I used Brian Shawver’s The Language of Fiction as the craft book backbone for the fiction unit of an introductory multi-genre creative writing course. Selecting it was a bit of a gamble (I’ll be honest: I’d only read a few chapters), though I had...
by Joseph Scapellato | Feb 28, 2013
She stopped their kissing but didn’t step away. She said it was different. They stood pressed together in an alley between crummy apartment buildings, the sky sick with rosy city-darkness. It was late and damp and they were parting, her staying, him going. Happy...
by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 21, 2013
GMR’s “Slow Burn” review series looks back at titles that continue to smolder, still, beneath the embers of last year or even the year before, or that simply burn brighter with time. –The Editors Life Is with People by Atticus Lish is a...
by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 4, 2013
Overheard at a creative writing conference: Writer 1 said, “He was looking for flash fiction. Flash fiction.” Writer 2 said, “Don’t you write poetry?” “Yeah,” said Writer 1. “So I just like sent him some prose poems and stuff.” Writer 2 said, “And?” ...
