Fiction from Brennan Burnside
da Capo . /a I’VE HEARD KIDS in the school saying, “Watch out for the new kid.” Like it’s a Western. They’re parting seas of people to look for her. A celebrity with scant details to identify her. Rumor had it she had a brace—but that was over a year ago and it’s probably off by […]
Nonfiction from Toti O’Brien
The Night A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING of “syncopation” takes two cheap alarm clocks—those I get at the nearby dollar store. Two: one on my bed stand (I keep it close in spite of the noise, it soothes me), one in the adjacent living room. Doors wide open: the heat is unbearable otherwise. The house is quite […]
Poetry from Meggie Royer
Like Mother, Like Daughter Autumn, and your mother’s hands are starting to change again, salmon in the backyard creek reversing course. In this life the two of you are leaning against your father’s ghost like wind. And even the rain knows to stay away from the house, whole drafts of it missing the porch, your […]
Poetry from A.D. Ross
Unctuous Inner Organ Real queens request liver, like Grimm’s deceptive stepmother, not for taste but something bigger, a biological picture. All the impurities caught in a salty, gritty vessel. Earthy flavor, paired with blood-brown gravy, fungi and onion. The dirty dish leaves rancor on the tongue, but she grows to like it, seared in soy […]
Poetry from Greg Hill
GENESIS, Initial Chapter (pattern plainly bearing seventh longest lingual figures) 1 Opening: Firstly, CREATOR created heavens astride planets. 2 Terrain existed without pattern: chaotic, lacking. Shadows colored hellish seaways. 3 CREATOR thought: Observe! Visible shining swiftly emerged. 4 CREATOR noticed visible shining, thought: Radiant! CREATOR divided shining against dimness. 5 CREATOR labeled shining Daytime. Dimness […]
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