Books
Extracting stories from the industries of the American West
In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...
How to escape the office and never go back
Denverite Wendy Fox wins the Colorado Book Award for literary fiction with short story collection about corporate lives
A perceived madness better lost to time
In her debut novel, Denverite Nina Shope explores the terror of a woman diagnosed with hysteria
So much loneliness so close to home
Jon Bassoff finds inspiration for dark novel out on the Great Plains
Can ‘Woman of Light’ rewrite the Western mythology?
Luz Lopez gazes into the tea cup, studying the leaves and “their soaking shapes.” The Platte River rushes at her back and all around,...
Now and then
Jenny Shank remembers an open field in southeast Denver where she would see pronghorns nibbling grass as she passed by on her half-hour bus...
Finding the common struggle
Death has this way of opening doors, of showing the living paths they didn’t realize they could take.
“Mostly it is loss,” mused the German...
A story about kids hunting giant robots in the desert
Just four years ago I was sitting here sending off queries to publishers,” Zoe Hana Mikuta says from across the table at Trident Cafe.
Mikuta...
How do you survive alone?
Imagine waking up to find yourself completely alone. Your town is abandoned. No family, no friends, no baristas making coffee or postal service workers...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
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EVENTS
Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center presents: ‘If You Just Believe.’...
Learning to love science fiction with Octavia E. Butler
Almost two decades ago, my sister gifted me Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred for Christmas and I admit I was skeptical. My preference for nonfiction...
Searching is the salve
There’s a sense of foreboding that hovers over the pages of Khadijah Queen’s new collection of poetry — a heavy nimbostratus cloud of dread.
“In...
