by Don Messerschmidt | Mar 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, Travel
The Prologue to this funny travelers’ romp, featuring Sue and Sara, begins with sage advice from Sue’s mother: “Wherever you go, whatever you do, just… don’t do anything stupid.” The lives of these two young women were stagnating. Both had backpacked a little, and...
by Stephen Febick | Dec 9, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
The cyclone in Leesa Dean’s Waiting For The Cyclone is many things. It is a figurative disruption, chaos for its characters, yet it also a way of life. Her collection of thirteen stories picks up its characters on a whim and ends them in places further away, and...