The stories in this issue of Parhelion scream “Halloween.” There are quite a few ghosts for you, from quite funny to disturbingly dark, as well as monsters, myths, and unreliable narrators. Work by N. T. Brown, Jeff Burd, Upasana Datta, Max Dorfman, Kelly Gray, and more.
Magazine Review by Katy Haas
In the latest issue of Parehlion, readers can find a selection of poetry by Sierra Lindsay. In this set of four poems, “The Line Between” especially stood out to me.
In this poem, Lindsay explores her name in three stanzas. The beginning draws readers in and explains the origin of this study: “I get lumps cut out of my breasts & on the hospital bracelet, last name first.” The second stanza studies the name as it’s used by people she “shouldn’t be fucking,” and the last stanza focuses on the name as it stands on a workplace name tag as customers question its source. The ending is explosive with its reclamation of her name and the power there, “I will put your name on my / tongue & make you taste it.”
The layout of the poem makes it even more enjoyable to read, along with Lindsay’s careful construction of language that ebbs and flows.
The Winter issue of Parhelion Literary Magazine invites readers to change up scenery and put on someone else’s shoes with fiction by Linda Boroff, Lyndsey Ellis, Sierra Lindsay, Mark Jacobs, and Garrett Zecker; flash by Julie Benish and Anthony Tao; nonfiction by Margaret Erhart; and poetry by David Dodd Lee, Sierra Lindsay, Richard Long, Adriana Medina, Jim Moore, and Austin Segrest. Also in this issue are three book reviews; five interviews; and more essay, stories, poetry, and photography in our “Features” section including work by Darren Morris, Leeta Harding, Charles Duffie, Rebecca Moon Ruark, Valley Haggard, Julie Whitehead, and more.