Carolynn Kingyens’ Coupling — A Review
A look at Carolynn Kingyens’ bright and brilliant poetry collection, Coupling…. by: Sharon Waller Knutson In Coupling, Carolynn Kingyens’ second…
Carolynn Kingyens
Two Poems by Carolynn Kingyens
by: Carolynn Kingyens ((Header art by Arthur Robins.)) These two poems by Carolynn Kingyens are meditations on the passage of…
Two Poems by Carolynn Kingyens
These two poems by Carolynn KIngyens offer the reader the possibility of reconsidering how we understand everything from our…
Attachment Theory
A short story awash with gaslighting, manipulation, and strikingly, a young girl who acts as an oracle of truth…
Best of Across The Margin, 2023
While we cherish all the stories and articles we are profoundly grateful to publish each year at Across The…
The Invitation
“But in losing myself, I gained a conscience, and was able to finally feel other people’s pain for the…
Aronofsky’s Devastating Whale
In contemplation of Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, a heartbreaking story of a teacher who attempts to reconnect with his…
Book Review: Marlon L. Fick’s The Tenderness and the Wood
A review of Marlon L. Fick’s The Tenderness and the Wood, a book that reads like “a dissociated Psalm,…
ATM Storytellers — Episode 2 (“Bye-Bye Miss American Pie” & “The Climacteric”)
The second installment of ATM STORYTELLERS features two captivating stories: Carolynn Kingyens’ “Bye-Bye, Miss American Pie” and R.E. Hengsterman’s…
It Was A Good Day
A short story that exhibits how the horrid lows in life can immediately supersede the triumphant highs… by: Carolynn…
Best of Across The Margin 2021, Fiction
As 2021 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured…
Cooper Comes Home
A bone-chilling work of fiction featuring a heartbroken brother, forever changed by a youthful trauma, which culminates in an…