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Eat Them, I Don’t Know: John Mayer’s Guide to Foraging, by Courtney Maum
Eat Them, I Don’t Know: Forced to take a year off from singing and on a strict Paleo diet to keep acid reflux from aggravating the granulomas that threaten his musical career, “Eat them, I
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On Superheroes and Superpowers: An Introduction by Editor Susan Muaddi Darraj
The theme of this – my first as the Online Editor for Barrelhouse – is superheroes, and I feel obliged to explain why this is so. The History: Of course, Wonder Woman was my favorite
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When the Bookmobile Lady Drives Down Your Street, by Colleen Michaels
When the bookmobile lady drives down your street consider her to be behind the controls of an invisible plane. Sharpen your sight and shout Shazamm! Don’t fall for the glasses on the chain thing. It’s an insider joke,
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Dana Scully, by Ling Ma
Agent Dana Scully is an accomplished forensic pathologist, a few years out of Stanford Medical School. She meets Agent Fox Mulder when the Bureau assigns her to work with him on The X-Files. She
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Bruce Wayne’s Guide to Breaking Down a Poem into Component Pieces, by Dante Di Stefano
First of all, I always encounter them in dark alleys, like the one my parents were murdered in, and they’re always addressing the moon, or grief, or joy, while trying to rob some citizen of his sense.
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Clark Kent’s Guide to Authorship, Readership, Text, and Existence, by Dante Di Stefano
Honestly, I’m embarrassed when somebody calls me Superman because I’m not that great and most of my heroics are egotistical acts of self-dramatization. I hate wearing tights and I eschew the red, white, and
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Supergirl, by Eric Freeze
When I was five and six, I begged my mother for two things: spinach and vitamins. Both were because of cartoons. The first was Popeye, the high gravelly-voiced sailor who would get anvils in
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For the Love of Ivy (Poison Ivy Leaves a Note for Batman in the Wake of Another Apocalypse Attempt), by Jeannine Gailey
You can see, can’t you, the appeal of such a world – lush with growth, an earth empty of men’s trampling? In college, sitting through botanical medicine classes, ecotoxicology, experiments in plant poisons – it became
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Heroes for Parties: 59 Bucks, by Jennifer Sears
A glossy black car speeds quickly down Highway 24, southwest of Boston. In the front passenger seat, a man dressed like Batman curses at a driver dressed like Robin. Large pink letters painted across
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The Outer Reaches of Love, by JP Kemmick
He’s holding up a pad and pen on which he’s written, “I miss you.” He’s flying alongside the space shuttle, matching its seventeen thousand miles per hour as it orbits Earth like a singular,
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