Cartoons in Red and Blue
A boy is coloring a picture of his family, but he only has two crayons. If he makes his father’s face blue, he must draw his eyes red.…
Salamander Fiction Contest 2016 Results
Winner J. L. Montavon, "Recursions" Honorable Mention Sonya Larson, "Gabe Dove" Finalists Priya Balasubramanian, "All the Animals" Erica Eisen, "Receive Us Every One" Donna Miele, "Fealty" Lara Palmquist, "Beneath New…
Reading: Gail Mazur & Erica Eisen, March 3
Please join us on Thursday, March 3, at 7 PM, for a reading with two contributors of Salamander Issue #41: poet Gail Mazur and fiction writer Erica Eisen Suffolk University…
The Folded Paper Game
Nights Daddy didn't come, our mother turned down the roast and set out crayons. My sister peeled the rind from a color called flesh. I chose periwinkle like his…
Incident Behind a Garbage Truck
Returning home from work, I found myself following a garbage truck as it lumbered south through rush hour traffic, as it maneuvered its rusty armed or elbowed front loader,…
Obit: Domenico Leccisi, 88, ‘The Body Snatcher’
The way a man meets his death will be determined by his character. —Benito Mussolini ‘Rest in peace’ has its ironies, and, in the case of Mussolini, a long…
Searching for an eBook in the Spring
1 I open Project Gutenberg dot com place the name of one Girish Karnad in the precarious window above left of page and wait for available dope for plays…
Les Amours à l’Encan
-After Auguste Glaize’s "Cherubim for Auction" Do you remember doing that to the garden Have you eaten+++++What was the last thing You swallowed++++++The tremendous pills Were they prescription…
Triptych: Portrait at Fifteen with Dog Swimming in Foreground
Whoever stopped rowing took this picture of me standing, fists in jacket pockets, beside the rotting pier, another potential failure, feature of the empty April beach, new companion to…
X-Factors: De Chirico
1. The Melancholy of Departure The removal began precisely as its planners had decided months earlier with names and ages and dispositions: dead, the dispositions always showed those to…
Between Lives: Cities I’ve Never Lived In: Stories by Sara Majka (Graywolf Press, 2016)
Sara Majka’s stories are imbued with longing for lost loved ones and lost homes in places where the narrator, Anne, has lived. But the stories are also about places…
Forgetting, Remembering: All That Followed by Gabriel Urza (Henry Holt and Company, 2015)
Following the thirty-six years of Generalissimo Franco’s dictatorial rule of Spain, the country began its swift transition to a democracy in 1975. The surrender of power was quick and…