Dan Reiter

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Crash Sheep Plant” by Emily Abrons

ByRoss McMeekin

  Last week’s column discussed the nature of perception, and the way in which Dan Reiter’s “Shifts” revealed how one mind might battle over the interpretation of the same event. In this week’s story, “Crash Sheep Plant” (Alice Blue Review 26), Emily Abrons juxtaposes a car crash with grazing sheep and plant life, and in…

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Shifts” by Dan Reiter

ByRoss McMeekin

  Aldous Huxley once wrote, “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” In Dan Reiter’s “Shifts” (WhiskeyPaper), we’re introduced to a character in conflict over how to accurately perceive a series of strange events, as shown through the narrator’s language and structure. In the opening…