forever, all night, into the forever, all night, the forest on fire, literally, and metaphorically, the horizon red in the night, this red line, and the smell, the backwards smell, the smell of burning lace and fingers, burning mirrors and bones, burning lakes and childhoods, and burning roofs and ghosts, where I’d try to hold […]
Ron Riekki
Ron Riekki has been awarded a 2014 Michigan Notable Book, 2015 The Best Small Fictions, 2016 Shenandoah Fiction Prize, 2016 IPPY Award, 2019 Red Rock Film Fest Award, 2019 Best of the Net finalist, 2019 Très Court International Film Festival Audience Award and Grand Prix, 2020 Dracula Film Festival Vladutz Trophy, 2020 Rhysling Anthology inclusion, and 2022 Pushcart Prize. Right now, Riekki’s listening to Jeff Buckley’s “So Real.”