Guest Writer of the Week: Chris Rice
Call of Nature  By a lake where setting suns bob up and down like oranges, a driver gets down from his bus, dents the desert with his...
Alan Humm is an author and the editor of One Hand Clapping magazine. Praised for his "absolutely terrific" recreation of Dickensian London, his "ecstatic phrasemaking" and his "powerfully visceral" and "luminous" poems, he has written three novels and two books of poetry. The Sparkler, his novel about Charles Dickens, was published in May 2024 and his first poetry collection, A Brief and Biased History of Love, is out now.
For The Sparkler