Hush by Meg Pokrass
We’re very excited to announce a new feature here at Emprise Review: Rescued Fiction. Each issue, we will feature a piece of fiction that we think is grand, and that sadly no longer has a home due to the demise of the online journal or magazine in which it was originally published. Most magazines can’t hang around forever, but we think good fiction ought to.
Our first featured author is Meg Pokrass and her 2010-Wigleaf-long-listed piece, “Hush.” This beautiful story was originally published in Bananafish; while we think it’s a sad sad thing that such a great publication has expired online, we are awfully glad to be able to present it to you here at Emprise Review.
(Send us your fiction so we can rescue it! Here are the rules: it has to be fantastic, it has to be from an online literary magazine or journal that no longer exists in online form, and it has to be (relatively) short, as in, under 4000 words. Submit just like you usually would, but including “Rescued Fiction” somewhere in the title line, preferably like this: “Rescued Fiction: Title of My Story.” Let us know in the cover letter where the story originally appeared online. We look forward to doing a little resuscitation!)
Thanks for helping us rescue great fiction so that we can give it a wider readership. Good words deserve to live on. Continue reading →
by Eric Rawson
A horse narrows herself
Into a rogue wind
Highways disperse:
Horizon heat-haze hamlets hills
The clock of thought
Skips—again—
No way to fence
Movement now
Like hunger
One forgets the size
People are ‘he’ and ‘she’ and ‘they’
‘Was I sleeping?
It doesn’t seem
That we were talking about Miles Davis’
The land opens
Its secrets but
No one knows where to look
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Eric Rawson lives in Los Angeles. His book The Hummingbird Hour was published recently.
Peter Dinklage owns his role and the first season of Game of Thrones. Previous contributors aren’t on HBO in a fantasy epic, though they’ve dropped some pwnage of their own recently:
