...Aricka Foreman © 2011 Aricka Foreman 2011 Aricka Foreman lesson on dream interpretation the best way to fend off a serial killer is to jab them right in the kidney over and over, or perhaps throw them over the banister of a house you share with at least eight strangers just like...

..., so late in the day you couldn’t see bugger-all. I wanted to quit. The foreman, gung-ho, insisted there was plenty of light to finish the job. Hundred and eighty feet to the river. Couldn’t swim a stroke. We kept several bolts in place, inserted a couple...

... what? They follow. I just lead them in. I never question the flinty men whose hands are looped with rope. They just watch me betray my kin. The foreman says it’s time to thin the herd. I pretend not to know what follows once I lead them in. An accusation...

... of Virginia. Lisa Fink, born from milk and snow in Minnesota, now lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poems and reviews have appeared in magazines like Spinning Jenny, Spout, Rain Taxi, and Fork­lift, Ohio. Aricka Foreman is a writer, performer, and educator. A Cave Canem fellow...

... 18, 1941 in New York City. Her father Irving (né Isak) Robinson, a Jewish immigrant from Czernowitz, Bukovina, was a foreman in his uncles’ picture frame factory. Her mother, Fannie Robinson, born in New Orleans of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, was the factory bookkeeper. Lillian...

... foreman adhering to a checklisted procedure, the deliberate shutdown of systems. Do not panic. Do not micromanage. Try not to be bitter that your roommate is recovering and will be released tomor­ row. It’s not her fault you are sick. Lie still. Wait for the light your friends from the cancer...

... tradition along that line, including Dickens and Zola —​you could even go back to Shakespeare for some of this inspiration. Cardullo  Can we look at your beginnings for a moment? Your father was an electrician who went on to be a foreman at a machine-tool factory. How did you get into film...