by Tyler Dempsey...If I cared about linear progress, I would’ve never gotten picked up by a plane hitchhiking. Had I taken my friend’s offer to drive me from Anchorage to Denali in early-May of 2017, after arriving in the 49th State from a winter in Missoula, MT, I wouldn’t remember a single damn thing of that trip today.

Dom Fou Time as a Sort of Enemy by Tyler Dempsey, Gob Pile Press, 2022 Reviewed by Scott Neuffer Tyler Dempsey’s new story collection snaps with dark energy, leaving the texture of dried blood on the mind’s fingers. The eight stories in the collection range from a scrappy, elliptical prose style to more sprawling stream-of-consciousness constructions, and they plumb settings from the Midwest to Mexico City to the advent of Internet life. What could be called satirical in thes

by Tyler Dempsey Anthony Walker 1. “About how love and desire are different things. I expect a partner these days to provide stability, carefully validate and bear my darkest fears, secrets, insecurities, whilst providing space enough to nurture my freedom in a way that feels supported and, most importantly, unfettered. I must be entirely myself. Of course I won’t be. But I must feel as if I could . My imagination must feel great. Unburdened. And only so hungry at a given tim