The new issue of Confrontation is out, issue #110, with cover art by Claudio Bravo (“Red, Rose and Orange Paper”). It’s a timely homage to the recently deceased Chilean painter. Inside the journal are a number of glossy full-color pages showcasing Bravo’s other work.
Paul Zimerman’s “Full Remittance,” a kind of anti-Rakolnikovian story, is excellent, as well as a shortish story by Theodore Wheeler with the titillating title of “The First Night of My Down-and-Out Sex Life,” which ends up being more somber than you’d expect.
Peter Levine’s “Often Remembered” shows a man stumbling into three women he’s had relationships with in the past, and the messiness of the intersections of memory and desire.
I’ve also got a story in this issue — “Drive-by Horoscope” — which began as a rumination on the strange messages on church sign boards (they are quite strange, are they not?). And what if — what if! — a man started using them as horoscopes?
