Issue 19 (Fall 2015

Shop for print - $12.00 Shop for eBooks - $2.99 The fall issue of Midwestern Gothic is all nonfiction, with essays and creative nonfiction inspired by the Midwest. Explore urban and rural, fractured settings and nostalgic memories in new work from some of the region’s best voices. Paperback copies and a variety of eBook formats are available. The latest issue features work from the following writers: Deborah Burand Matthew Byrd Anna Clark Emily Corwin Bill Derks Dain Edward Melissa Faliveno Matthew Gavin Frank Matt Helm…

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Test Interview 1

Everything was perfectly swell.   There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. The population of the United States was stabilized at forty-million souls. One bright morning in the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a man named Edward K. Wehling, Jr., waited for his wife to give birth. He was the only man waiting. Not many people were born a day any more. Wehling…

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Blog Post Test 1

Is she ready to know my frustration?What she slippin’ inside, slow castrationI’m a riddle so strong, you can’t break meDid she come here to try, try to take meDid she call my name?I think it’s gonna rainWhen I dieWas it something I said, held against me?Ain’t no life on the run, slowly climbingCaught in ice so she stares, stares at nothingI can help her but won’t, now she hates meDid she call my name?I think it’s gonna rainWhen I dieShe won’t let me hideShe don’t…

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