Never take anything at face value again with Rush Hour, a literary journal edited by Michael Cart featuring original stories, essays, art, and poems.

Bold, innovative, and eclectic – that’s Rush Hour, the place for thought-provoking work from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new. “Face” is the captivating theme of Volume Three, and it goes far beyond skin deep to probe perceptions and reality, secrets and revelations.

In Rush Hour: Face, 20 writers and articles peer beneath the masks we wear in public – and in private – with startling results. You’ll find striking stories by Aidan Chambers and K.L. Going, poetry by Marc Talbert and Jen Bryant, a graphic story by Eric Shanower, art by Harry Bliss and William Steig, and several rising stars here you won’t want to miss.

The third issue pushes the boundaries of this unprecedented, pulsating journal, published twice a year and focused on themes today’s readers care about most.

Lara's short story “Me and the Bean” appears in this issue.

"The best volume in this series so far ... Aidan Chambers and Lara Zeises both examine the after effects of romantic relationships; Chambers with a sharp clinical eye in "The Scientific Approach," Zeises tracking the emotional residue of lingering tenderness and painful reckoning of truth. ... The range of style and approach offers good reading from cover to cover, or one entry at a time." - Horn Book

"Fresh and innovative." -Kirkus Reviews

"[P]rovocative and worth reading." -Teenreads.com

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