
Two Poems from Natalie Homer
8 Hot New Tips Guaranteed To Make Your Summer Sizzle 1. The honeysuckle will bloom limp yellow hands. Hold the flower and pinch / just above the calyx. Pinch hard enough to break through the petal, but not all the way to the insides. ………..You’ll see what I mean. 2. Mix things up by […]

Fiction from Michael Garret Ashby II
Saving the Gladiator HE PULLED the trigger while he was sitting right next to me. When I first heard the shot I kept trying to tell myself it was just another clacking of the train on the rails, but trains don’t splatter blood over windows or dress shirts. I felt guilty in some respects. From […]

Nonfiction from Jennie Ziegler
The Telling RUBBER SNEAKER SOLES. Basement bars. Something out of Cheers. Glass bottles filled with amber, glinting dully against wood polished by arms, hands hammers on bartop. Billy Joel is crooning from a corner speaker, a low undertone. I sit under sticky tables, small hands swimming in wide stolen drums of bobbing maraschino cherries. A […]