Broken Toys
By Kaya
That horrible couple down the block! Neighbors covered their children’s ears and blessed their less than perfect marriages. The fights, the recriminations, the finger pointing, were all marks of a profound failure of communication, yet, day in and years out, the struggle continued. Why? They seemed so much less than opposites that attract in wild and charming juxtaposition. So, why? (continue)
That horrible couple down the block! Neighbors covered their children’s ears and blessed their less than perfect marriages. The fights, the recriminations, the finger pointing, were all marks of a profound failure of communication, yet, day in and years out, the struggle continued. Why? They seemed so much less than opposites that attract in wild and charming juxtaposition. So, why? (continue)
Endless Forms*
By Alicita Rodríguez
Admit it—a thousand seeds can be latterly falling. Place the case with plants in India, in numbers plenty: twenty-five, thirty-two recurring. (continue)
Admit it—a thousand seeds can be latterly falling. Place the case with plants in India, in numbers plenty: twenty-five, thirty-two recurring. (continue)
O R E
By Miranda Mellis
Ariel, distant shores, as she had since she was a child setting her balloon adrift with a note tied to it that said, wish I were there. (continue)
Ariel, distant shores, as she had since she was a child setting her balloon adrift with a note tied to it that said, wish I were there. (continue)
A Myth of Creation
By David-Glen Smith
Experimenting with the creative process, Hephaestus worked alone at his anvil, pounding out various forms, various portraits, tiny versions of himself. The images were numerous, cluttering the floor of his workshop, jumbled together, their malleable parts mixing. (continue)
Experimenting with the creative process, Hephaestus worked alone at his anvil, pounding out various forms, various portraits, tiny versions of himself. The images were numerous, cluttering the floor of his workshop, jumbled together, their malleable parts mixing. (continue)
Q&A: Miranda Mellis
Q&A: David-Glen Smith
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ffrrfris a literary journal devoted to creative storytelling and intriguing uses of language. Started in late 2010, our journal believes in Viktor Shklovsky's notion of "defamiliarization: - that good art does not merely imitate reality, but makes perception long and laborious by "enstranging" or defamiliarizing familiar objects and complicating forms.
As Anais Nin expressed this idea: The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.