“Everyone I know is wealthy, I a mere poet
Study poetry, speak poetry, and compose a little”
– From “Love Letter” by Rehan Qayoom
Issue Ninety-Three
9 comments to “Issue Ninety-Three”
9 comments to “Issue Ninety-Three”
I enjoyed reading Helen Sinoradski’s story, Risk. She succinctly captured the disjointed, fractured feeling that occurs when you are part of a couple and you witness the dissolution of another couple’s relationship. The title, Risk, reflects the many levels of emotion portrayed.
Enjoyed the precision of the words. I found myself anticipating the rest of the story….
Great issue. I particularly like Risk by Sinoradski. It captures the difficulties of friendship and marriage and getting caught in the middle of those relationships as different people demand loyalty. In particular I liked the complexity that the character Carol found herself in.
I really enjoyed Risk. You could really feel what the characters were going through and the dynamics between them. Great read! I want to read more from Sinoradski.
This issue was good and I enjoyed everything, but the story that really got to me was Risk. I could actually picture the situations and feel the emotions of the characters. It reminded me of people that I knew and the pain of a marriage that is failing and not being able to help them. To have the meetings and the calls at night but be powerless. Risk really worked for me. I especially liked the ending, leaving us hanging there not knowing what was going to happen. It felt very real and allowed me to imagine my own endings. Thanks for publishing this.
Loved Risk by Sinoradski. It seemed to capture a chilling snapshot of a relationship balanced on a knife’s edge and we are watching to see which way it will fall.
Sinoradski’s Risk was an uncomfortable journey, a captured last mile in the lives of two people about to take separate roads into the future. Her story of the collapsing relationship of Lily and Peter was skillfully told. I seemed to know every step they took before it was taken and yet, when the tale came to an abrupt end I was left wanting to know if one or the other — or both — found a new road smoother and more comfortable than the old one.
In my mind when I wrote the story was how the collapse of one marriage, in this case Lily and Peter’s, can reveal the fault lines, the risk, in the marriage of friends. Marriage is risky. What makes two people stay committed to each other? Carol and Drew have to answer that question and I left it up to the reader to decide what they do.
HS
In Risk, Helen Sinoradzki concisely paints a vivid portrait of the relationships between the four characters. She skillfully tells the story of this everyday tragedy. Thanks for the excellent story.