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| "Get Back Better On", Photograph by Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Cover art for Glint Literary Journal 2012 |
"Along the block of mostly abandoned storefronts, the barber turns the sign to Sorry we're CLOSED Please come back tomorrow, and moves the red plastic arrow to 7 AM. No customers came in today, yesterday, or the day before. But no matter, you keep the same hours every day, said her father when, after her mother's hysterectomy, he began officially training her for her inheritance."
"The Midwife", by Erin Pringle-Toungate, just came out in the newest issue of Glint Literary Journal. It will be in her book Midwest in Memoriam. The story follows Susan, a woman who has inherited the family barber shop as well as the "delivery" end of the business.
The managing editor of Glint, professor and writer Brenda Mann Hammack, wrote a very welcoming and in-depth introduction to the work in this issue. Regarding "The Midwife", she writes,
At least three works of short fiction (Noah Milligan’s “Amid the Flood of Mortal Ills,” Alexandra Pajak’s “Election Day,” and Erin Toungate’s “The Midwife”) concern themselves with feasible futures that challenge faith.
[. . .] Language has undergone a similar sea change in Toungate’s narrative as a young girl is inducted into the family business of “midwifery.” In each of these speculative texts, the authors imagine that the world as we know it has vanished, though not entirely.Other artists in this issue are Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Ivan de Monbrison, Christine Dano Johnson, B.D. Fischer, Noah Milligan, Alexandra Pajak, Abdel Shakur, and David Vardeman.
Glint Literary Journal comes out of Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
