Editor’s Note: I’ve followed Noel’s blogs for years now, so it’s an extra privilege to have her interview appear in Side B Magazine. Noel is a star – there’s no other word for it. She’s among the hardest working, most dedicated, and most driven people I’ve encountered online or offline. Creator of the Miss...
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by Laura Hallman One day, several months ago, I approached the clear glass door to my office building during a rainy day with a coffee in my right hand and an umbrella in my left hand—purse and work tote slung over my left shoulder. As I stepped up to the door, a man whom had just entered ahead of me was closing the door behind me, looking straight at...
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Alexis M. Smith’s short novel Glaciers is a Tin House New Voice, hailed by the press as “delicate,” “haunting,” and “glinting.” I agree that the debut is, all in all, a very pretty piece of work. The prose is wistful yet crystal-cut in a way that makes the internal monologues and thoughts sparkle, and the vivid memories flesh out the story...
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When I was a child my favorite toy was a raggedy, stuffed rabbit. He wore something like a harlequin’s costume; though its stripes were so faded it more resembled a white jumpsuit. He went everywhere with me and, as a consequence, posed in nearly every family photo with my younger self. At one point my uncle’s puppy tore him to shreds (he also gnawed...
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Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day is probably best read not during either of those times, but instead during the twilight hour when you might look up from a particular fantastic story and forget whether the day is ending or just beginning. Ben Loory’s stories are just a few pages each, and some are barely a paragraph in length. Some...
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