“Backseat Driver” A Short Story by Rae Knowles

Backseat Driver - A Short Story by Rae Knowles

A bleeding sun rears its angry head over the hills surrounding your childhood holler. You smudge a bit of dirt into your hairline and hurl your suitcase into the open trunk of your mother’s silver van, Mark glaring at you between the headrests…

The History of Indie Publishing, Part 1

Shortwave Publishing - A History of Indie Publishing Part 1

The basic structure of publishing, with much groaning and stretching, has shifted in ways that render it barely recognizable to those of us who were around during its earlier iterations…

“FFUNS” A Short Story by Johnny Compton

FFUNS Johnny Compton

Holding the unlabeled black video cassette somehow reassured her of the legitimacy of its contents. With that reassurance came effervescent nausea, an ugly, unreal sensation befitting the place she was in and the sight that awaited her…