Poetry by Deya Mukherjee

Poetry by Deya Mukherjee

Cough She coughed a lot in a green coat. That green on most the frightened throb of alcopops, on her an itchy kind of hallucination. Hair fat with the lusty nausea of leaves and petrol, lips the colour of a child’s shoes.     The child’s shoes dig the dirt when asked her age. “I’m […]

Fiction from Bezalel Stern

Fiction from Bezalel Stern

The Golem of Brooklyn THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN was formed and brought to life on a late spring evening in the Year of our Lord 2007. The Golem was created in the basement of a Famous American Writer, in Park Slope. The Famous American Writer had recently published a novel to great acclaim, and had […]

Poetry by Lauren Suchenski

Poetry by Lauren Suchenski

And glory glory to the word and glory glory to the word named grass to the long opalescent tracks of sunset that streak across your ribs, your bones and all the grazing places where your soul must hide glory glory to the star called sun and all its devastating bliss that wants to ignite the […]

Nonfiction from Marla Lepore

Nonfiction from Marla Lepore

At the Corner of West Wilderness Way AS THE RENTAL CAR SLOWS AT THE FOUR-WAY STOP, you see the chewed up lawn, the fading olive shutters, brick that seems worn by the Louisiana sun, even as untended trees extend their sloppy canopy across the corner lot. But do you see that circular shadow, the tattoo of […]