Kyle PaolettaThree Quarters Wolf MoonA few pages into “The Pull of the Wing,” one of the stranger stories in Kiini Ibura Salaam’s very strange collection When the World Wounds…Dec 8, 2016Dec 8, 2016
Kyle PaolettaEnclosed in Water“It’s always warm here,” Yoko Ogawa’s long story “The Diving Pool” begins, “I feel as though I’ve been swallowed by a huge animal.” Aya is…Sep 7, 2016Sep 7, 2016
Kyle PaolettaBroken-Winged BirdAt night, a boy appears. He sleeps “as heavily as a dead horse” between two bounty hunters, Brooke and his brother Sugar (who is…Aug 16, 2016Aug 16, 2016
Kyle PaolettaThe color blue is an interesting color.But Bluets is not about the color blue, it is about Maggie Nelson, who wrote it after a bad breakup (on the specifics of which she is…Aug 8, 2016Aug 8, 2016