From the Solstice Magazine’s social media: Khanh Ha’s “The Woman-Child” has won the 2020 William Faulkner Literary Competition for short story (a joint effort by …
Practitioner Joy 1.2
Life, Biology, and Coherence It’s been a while since the last post. The COVID pandemic combined with political unrest is a recipe …
Practitioner Joy: Canned Goods
With all that’s going on these days—pandemics, protests, riots, elections—it serves to reason that taking a pause to get one’s bearing is …
On Rich Murphy’s Practitioner Joy
That we are at a crossroads in human history is plain to see. It is up to each one of us, I …
AMERICA: Blood is Spirit
The horror is that we live in an increasingly post-literate society despite the promises of the Enlightenment and related claims of progress. Wrecking statues, rioting, and general mayhem in an attempt to apply coverup makeup to the scars of our past is not progress but an effort to collectively reeducate in the name of a vapid utopia that can never exist in a fallen world. But we don’t have to accept it as inevitable.
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Red Wheelbarrow Review (RWR)! For those of you who have been patiently waiting for the …
Avalon Manly
SKIN LIKE LIGHTS I went to the funeral on a Tuesday, which I thought was kind of shitty. A Saturday morning funeral, …
Douglas Penick
IN THE SEA OF DREAMS I As the world was consumed in war, when the outcomes were in no way certain, Wallace …
Elizabeth Kirschner
THE SHIPWRECKED WORLD As we sailed a small sloop in Chesapeake Bay, Dorothy Heckinger, whose homeliness—modest, unmentionable, was punctuated by pimples that …