12/07/2023

Humbug!

I confess! I’ve never read the book, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. I’m a fan of the work, having seen many iterations of the storyline on screen ever since I was a young child. Is it by strange coincidence, then...

12/13/2022

A Student/Professor Affair in Fact and Fiction - River Teeth Journal

Sarah Cheshire’s chapbook, Unravelings, published in 2017 by Etchings Press, is a work of creative nonfiction in which the author blurs facts so creatively that it is difficult to know what is fiction and what is truth. The only part readers can be sure is entirely made up is the Title IX document woven throughout the story. Cheshire tells us in the prologue that she created the Title IX report and its narrator or subject to make sense of a distorted memory involving her and a professor, imagini

12/06/2022

Unredeemable?

WHY? Why can’t I do the “right” things that I know would be better for me? I asked her this very question, “why?”, but she had no answer. She simply agreed that change is hard.

500 Words • 05/24/2022

What do imaginary friends, nervous tics, and a love of black licorice have in common?

On her thirteenth birthday, Agatha Anxious learns about a family secret linking her with her Aunt Hattie in a way she never imagined. But it’s a secret that not even her parents can know about! Hattie and Agatha are both

03/10/2021

Book Review: Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff

While reflecting on the potential harm caused by full-grown snapping turtles, the pair of ten-year-olds can’t help but feel compassion for these “poor damn things” who just need a fair chance in life – much like Bread.

01/31/2021

Book Review of Max & the Spice Thieves

When Max’s mom wakes him one morning, surprising him with preparations for a journey they will undertake, he thinks she’s finally given in and is willing to travel with Max to find his dad. Though Max is unsure of her reasons or exact plans, she reminds him that his father is gone, but assures him they will be traveling, instead, on a pirate ship to an island where they will be safe – a place called Sanctus.

10/17/2020

Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

"He listened to the shhk of metal sliding home, then turned to find Lila waiting, her back purposely to the tavern, as if her present were already her past" (201).

08/20/2020

Hieroglyphics Book Review

She is taunted by traumas of her childhood that continually blend with the horrors of her present job as a court stenographer. Knowing the many unimaginable crimes committed everyday convinces her that she shouldn’t allow Frank into her home, no matter how innocent his request may seem. Her son Harvey is haunted by stories from the past, told to him by his older brother, Jason, now away at college. Harvey also believes a ghost visits their home at night. Shelley is not convinced that he’s wrong.

08/09/2020

Lifespan of a Fact (a review of the Fall 2018 play)

“You know you’re writing something really great when you’re willing to cut out something you love.”