Gary Fincke‘s latest collection of personal essays, The Darkness Call, won the 2017 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose and was published by Pleiades Press. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Ohio State Journal Prize for Poetry, he has published thirty-two books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Fiction
Winter 2008
The Visual Equivalent of Pain
How many times have I heard some guy say, “I want to kill the bitch”? For sure, more than I can count on my fingers. But not lately, not since […]
Science, Science Fiction and Poetry
Autumn 1993
Why We Care about Quarks
Because something deflected the fired electrons. Because emptiness, suddenly, seemed crowded, and The invisible, three bits of it, needed a name After ACES was rejected, that opener called Before a […]
Jan/Feb 2019
After the Three-Moon Era
The dozen fetuses of the sand shark feed on each other until only one is left to be born. 1 While eating breakfast, I read that some astronomers now believe […]
Winter 2014
The Physics of Desire
Pictures
My father, hands on his walker, stays seated in his chair with the fabric-covered arms so sweat-soiled the pattern has been erased.