Happy Saturday, everyone. Here's what we published this week:

Brian O'Neill reviewed Pages of Mourning by Diego Gerard Morrison, from Two Dollar Radio. Brian has written for us numerous times over the years and we're always glad to feature his reviews.

Then our weekly story was "The Human Heart: A Topographic Map and Guidebook" by Elissa Cahn, a writer we're honored to feature for the first time.

And on Friday Laura Leigh Morris shared some research notes for her novel The Stone Catchers from University Press of Kentucky. We previously published her story "How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse."

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Elsewhere, I saw that contributor Demisty D. Bellinger is offering an online course on "Building Suspense in Short Fiction" through The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Earlier in the summer, I invited folks to share what they were reading either for pleasure or research, and to my chagrin I overlooked while traveling an email from contributor Jenny Johnson ("In Event of Moon Disaster") doing just that. She writes,

I’m reading Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness by my former professor at the University of Houston, Dr. Roberto Tejada, a  beautiful, strange, and unclassifiable object of a book — my favorite kind. I’m letting it inform my novel in progress which has to do, in part, with how mythic Texas interacts with the rest of the world, and vice versa. 

Thanks, Jenny, and my apologies for the delay!

Thanks for reading,
Steve Himmer