issue 36

Summer’s wrapping up but we’re sweltering at Vestal Review. In this issue, we get steamy with sexy Mateo in Liz Prato’s Like Butterflies or Fireflies. We’re hot-tempered with Pamela Gray’s The Angry Woman, and in Lacey Jane Henson’s story Breast, we sizzle.

There are entanglements in Issue 36. In T.L. Sherwood's The Virgin Forest, Janet Shell Anderson’s Nothin’ But The Rain, and Joe Ponepinto’s Eyes With No Promise, the stories are chock-full of longing.

Annie Cardi is also featured in this issue with Where Does the Mind Go? In this story, we find ourselves in the narrator’s head at a crucial moment in life. Sari Edelstein comes to terms with who her mother wasn’t in This Woman Was a Reader and Claire Rudy Foster recalls an affliction in Charles Osbourne and His Childhood Companion.

We’re also excited to feature our interview with Stuart Dybek, Author of I Sailed with Magellan, a novel-in-stories, The Coast of Chicago: Stories, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, as well as one of his fine pieces of flash, Fog. Stuart has just returned from Prague, where he has been teaching and he graciously shares his views on compression in prose.

—MaryAnne McCollister