Category: Featured Artist

  • Ken Robidoux

    Photograph                       for Hannah In this one you sit crossed-legged, facing me, holding a pair of drum sticks. The honey glaze on the wood draws light from a bay window. We sit, just the two of us, each playing some song now forgotten in our walk-up overlooking the bay. You are still in diapers and your…

  • A Section from Pin it on a Drifter by Andrew Grace

    TTR is pleased to present poetry from Andrew Grace.

  • Andrew Grace

    from Pin it on a Drifter I can tell you about my boy. He seems to have some truce with distance. He was born with his eyes open and has never known awe since. Once, a field snake traced a wave across our floor during supper. Even his father gasped. My boy watched our shock…

  • Flash Fiction by Ben Merriman

    TTR is proud to present three works of flash fiction by Ben Merriman.

  • Ben Merriman

    What is Flash Fiction? One should never begrudge deletions. The length of a work is irrelevant, and the fear that not enough is on paper, childish. –Theodor Adorno Though I am being featured here as a fiction writer, I am by training a sociologist, and therefore much given to flights of theory and abstraction. I…

  • Ben Merriman

    Distinction My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house dug into the side of a hill. Humble though this dwelling was, the family were set above their neighbors because they could afford to tack cheesecloth to the ceiling. In this way my ancestors prevented snakes from falling through the roof. Flash Fiction by Ben Merriman…

  • Ben Merriman

    The Bear In the Adirondacks one must never leave garbage nearby, in case it should attract a bear. On a certain occasion somebody left garbage nearby, and a bear was attracted. It was right on our porch, eating a chicken carcass and a pile of aluminum foil. In person, bears are not as tall as…

  • Ben Merriman

    About James Madison As an undergraduate I attended James Madison University.  My partner was a graduate student there.  It is hardly possible to spend so long at a school without learning a few things about the namesake: James Madison, so a factsheet about James Madison says, was America’s first graduate student, having spent a post-baccalaureate…

  • A Short Story from Nick Kocz

    TTR is pleased to present a work of short fiction by Nick Kocz: “Rhoda, my sister, knows a place where tomatoes grow wild on vines that are as thick as Jack’s beanstalk. She’s been picking them all morning and has lugged a weathered bushel basket of them up to the room we share on the…

  • Poems by Gary McDowell

    TTR is pleased to present two poems by Gary McDowell.