Richard Leis

Month: March 2018

  • “The Center of Dirty”

    Screen shot of Cold Creek Review website with title of publication and an wintery creek and forest scene on 28 March 2018

    “Rachel hung up on her mother while she was telling Rachel about her niece’s birthday party. The abrupt silence was packed with glass. Rachel stared at the dark screen of her phone until the greasy prints bothered her. She wiped the phone across her jeans and set it face down on the table. It rang.…

  • Sunday Task

    Macbook Lamp Notebook Desk writing

    How to group poems into manuscripts that will go out to several potential markets? I have no idea.

  • “Nervous Bambi”

    List of Impossible Archetype Issue 3 poets and contents under journal logo, release date, and URL

    “He blinks and I’m not sure if he’s trying / to embarrass me or if he’s confused by me, too. / He has to be lying.”

  • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

    Simon and the other characters are the highlight of Simon vs the Homo sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, about a high school student on the verge of coming out as gay dealing with doubt, first love, and blackmail.

  • The World to Come: Stories by Jim Shepard

    Every single story in this collection of historical fiction and contemporary fiction pieces is breathtaking, full of incredible and often all-too-real details, and features characters (whether based on real people or not) that leap off the page.