Böcker av Michael Mcinnis

Welcome to the second print issue of Nixes Mate Review featuring new voices and returning voices. In this issue, we tackle memory and mortality and what it means to publish in a winter that seems like a memory. Is it early Spring in New England when it's 60 degrees Fahrenheit out in February? Is it late winter when, a week earlier, it was -8 degrees Fahrenheit? Is it even winter when Boston has only received 8 inches snow versus its usual 2 feet by the middle of February? Where are the Nor'easters? Are we speaking too soon, jinxing us here at Nixes Mate headquarters surrounded by a rising and warming sea? Will we retain a memory of the winter that wasn't long after it fades?

Poetry and Fiction from: Hussam Jefee-Bahloul · Gene Barry · Robert Beveridge · Matt Borczon · Pris Campbell · Alan Catlin · Linda M. Crate · Lori Desrosiers · Mari Deweese · Susan Mann Dolce · James Duncan · Karen Friedland · Roberta Gould · Mitchell Grabois · Doug Holder · Richard D. Houff · Tim Kahl · Mignon Ariel King · Kay Kinghammer · Susanna Lang · Jennifer Martelli · Gary Metras · David P. Miller · Suchoon Mo · Phil Montenegro · Polly Richardson Munnelly · Edward Mycue · Philip Nikolayev · Carl Nelson · Renuka Raghavan · Melissa Rendlen · Tree Riesener · C. C. Russell · Margarita Serafimova · Scott Silsbe · Meg Tuite · Bill Yarrow · Donald Zirilli · ryki zuckerman

There is pain, the pain of life, of death, of war, of childbirth. And then there is the pain of a migraine. An ocular nightmare with a surfeit of auras and screaming and monsters clawing inside a sufferers' head. Through the noir pinhole of a beleaguered gangster the migraine is filtered in a stuttering, cartwheeling ghost ship full of death and night and blood. Through war, assassinations, Catholic apostasy, and crime, Smokey of the Migraines has gone to the edge of the world where sea monsters hunt a migraine is a fall from grace.