Stopover : Luchador Press : 9781952411748 : 1952411742 : 07 Sep 2021 : "Many years ago, when I first traveled through Yellow Springs, Ohio, the home of Antioch College, I felt a strange Twilight-Zone presence in that Sunday-morning vacant town. The inn's proprietor was not surprised because "upstairs Rod Serling taught class." I felt the vibe. Now, I'm catching that vibe again with Rikki Santer's Stopover, her poetic riffs on Sterling's Twilight Zone, which takes the series to another dimension, where the allegories are soft reminders of our humanity, our vulnerability, and our innocence. Our enjoyment is seeing episodes with "no moral, no message, no prophetic tract/just a suit of armor held together by one bolt/call it faith." She soars, for instance, when she shares the bird's-eye view of Mickey Rooney as a washed-up jockey, condensing the aging loser in a prison-like room with "walls closing in as your consonants rattled, your character out of his mind with shortness, neon gel of y