Perle Besserman’s short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, AGNI, Transatlantic Review, Nebraska Review, Southerly, and Bamboo Ridge, among others. Her books of creative nonfiction have been recorded and released in both audio and e-book versions and translated into over ten languages. Her forthcoming novel Kabuki Boy will be published by Aqueous Books. Also find her work at www.cerisepress.com, www.hawaii.edu/mjournal, www.bearcreekfeed.com, and www.cantarabooks.com
It turned abnormally cold the night Tom Clerkson arrived at the Dee’s Amagansett house with two bottles of Australian Shiraz, a half depleted Heineken twelve-pack, and Edward Kelley in tow, full of apologies for being two hours late: the train had stalled between Southampton and Easthampton. Judging from the cloud of beer fumes following him into the house,… Read more →
Stella Richter’s Boston friends said her Manhattan apartment reminded them of Miami Beach. They meant it as a slur, and she took it that way. She still played her father’s Bechstein in the corner of the living room every afternoon—Handel, Mozart, Bach—she knew the pieces all by heart and hardly missed a note though she hadn’t taken a lesson in… Read more →