WORD RIOT NEWS
“Reading BABY is like being attacked by a rabid dog— and feeling grateful for it. This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.” –Jonathan Franzen
Word Riot Inc.: Kicking Small Press Into High Gear
MAY 2013 ISSUE
INTERVIEWS
An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Lightsey Darst
REVIEWS
Upstaged by Jacques Jouet
Big Ray by Michael Kimball
Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin
The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge
Every Possible Blue by Matthew Thorburn
FLASH FICTION
We Walked Through Mansions All Summer by Frances Badgett
Family Tree by Ira Dawson
Patterns of Flight by Gabrielle Hovendon
STRETCHING FORMS
Recorded Music by Andy Peyrie
Marriage: A Math Lesson Plan by Caitlin M. Smith
POETRY
These are my best gifts: by Logen Cure
I Try to Remember it All but Forget by Matthew Harrison
Taste by Ryan Swofford
I know what I will tell you when I see you in church by Eszter Takacs
Portraits by Mihaela Tudor
Three Poems by Bridget Waldron
IT COULD BE DUSK by Jules Wood
Brief Reflections on the Post-Apocalyptic Moment when We Will Have to Love Robots by Matthew Yasuoka
Impatience by Ali Znaidi
