The Fix reviewed The Written Word #13, which features my story, “The Kid Pool.” Here’s what they had to say:

In “The Kid Pool” by Ian Rogers, The Kid’s grandmother describes herself as:

…third-generation trailer-trash and she had the trailer to prove it. I was raised in a doublewide Airstream by a doublewide mamma she’d say in the slow, tired delivery of one who has told the same joke so many times it has lost whatever humour it once had.

But her co-workers aren’t much above that, vicariously living the misery of others for entertainment. The cast of characters buys into the pool, like the masses who tune into reality television. There is no happily ever after, but it has a satisfying conclusion.

Read the full review.

Also, turns out the Bigfoot corpse was a hoax. What a surprise.

• Currently reading: Generation Dead, by Daniel Waters