Author: Kevin Light-Roth

  • The Shortlist: March 14, 2025

    The Shortlist: March 14, 2025

    An essay and eleven short stories: Kevin Light-Roth Charlie Rogers, M.A. Boswell, J. Haase Vetter, M.E. Proctor, Casey McFadzean, Candace Leigh Coulombe, Caleb Bethea, Elda Orozco, Arthur H. Manners, Terese Svoboda and Annalisa Crawford

  • On Aging and Dying in Captivity by Kevin Light-Roth

    Blog fave Kevin Light-Roth (read his story Zen here) has a piece in Inquest about, well, what it says up there. It’s reflective and grim, hopeful and insightful. Essential reading. This year I passed a grim milestone: I’ve now been in captivity longer than I’d been alive when I was arrested.

  • The Shortlist: March 7, 2025

    The Shortlist: March 7, 2025

    Eight (!) fiction stories from Kelly Robson, Amy DeBellis, Katherine Plumhoff, Mark Ifanson, Chris Scott, Nathan Leslie, and Kevin Light-Roth

  • Zen by Kevin Light-Roth

    His truck repossessed by a bail bondsman, a reluctant teenage boy attempts to track down his wanted mother. It’s the first story published at T&W, and it’s a barnburner.

  • Zen

    Zen

    His truck repossessed by a bail bondsman, a reluctant teenage boy attempts to track down his wanted mother.

  • The Shortlist: January 31, 2025

    The Shortlist: January 31, 2025

    Jaw-dropping nonfiction from Kevin Light-Roth, and fiction from Lena Valencia, Jamey Gallagher, Jordan Harper and David Waters

  • Recovery from Solitary is an Illusion by Kevin Light-Roth

    Simply stunning stuff. Kevin Light-Roth is incarcerated and writes about spending a long time in solitary confinement: Your mind retreats into daydreams and your daydreams grow complex and immersive. They tug you along on a course of their own devising, heeding none of your direction. Invariably, they involve conflict with someone, a real person from…