Nonfiction from grace (ge) gilbert
Photo: Dan Meyers I realize I am a serial monogamist. * Sautéing yellow onions in my mother’s home, a moment breaks open in the way moments do—senselessly. Do I actually want to be married? The voice seemingly crawls out of some pit or another, perhaps coaxed into the foremeats of my brain by the familiar […]
Nonfiction from Julie Zuckerman
All Photos: Julie Zuckerman Snapshot of the Southern Hills What I saw on my ride this morning: Rocky terraces and verdant rolling hills, greens so abundant and fresh my words cannot adequately express their hues and saturation. Against this backdrop, fields of white mustard with tall, delicate petals sway in the wind; despite its name, […]
Poetry from Nicole Scott
Photo: Deleece Cook The Mob Goes Wild The couch crowed about its rips for each girl who lost her virginity on its paisley olive cushions. The afghan had a hole for each jet-black stiletto stabbed through, rough housing with the rich neighbor boy. Ladies didn’t care who were ladies or if their crackers got crumbs […]
Poetry from KB Baltz
Photo: sandid Bower Birds After the fire grandma’s house with its glass eggs cat knick-knacks and ancient china was pushed into the sea by a yellow bulldozer with no sympathy for memory or the smell of mothballs and hand rolled cigarettes. After the fire grandma’s house was pushed into the sea and red headed girls […]
Poetry from Satya Dash
Photo: Clay Banks Photosynthesis The closest I got to myself was when I tried slitting my wrist with the blade of a shaking leaf unfurling like a long finger’s curse only to find a wreck of the world’s errata at the entrance sat Orpheus singing only poetry makes sense of all this in poems I […]
Poetry from Cliff Saunders
Photo: Krissia Cruz On Both Knees I want to make light bulbs flicker in every corner of a venerable house. I want a moth greener than a grocery store to hold moral high ground. I want to fix the confusion about salt and the unknown. I’m not going to blow this, and neither are caterpillars […]
Fiction from Jessica Sadler
Photo: Adam Solomon Baltimore Speak To describe this accent on paper is impossible except through seemingly unrelated comparisons: it sounds like a hand gliding up my thigh, starting at the knee and slowly gaining pressure midway at the meat of muscle and fat, then drawing a semi-circle with the thumb at the base of my […]
Poetry from Maggie Fulmer
Photo: Stéphan Valentin Out of Order I insert the dollar four times before I notice the sign. My mom isn’t around, but I can hear her – If you roll your eyes again, they’ll get stuck like that. The kids on the corner pretend the stone wall is a balance beam – gymnasts with cherry […]
Fiction from Jad Josey
Photo: Cherry Laithang It Finally Happened The sun dissolved into the sea today. It finally happened this time—it was not a metaphor for your fading love or a simile about your joy winking out like a light. The sun touched down, an inverted avalanche of steam cascading skyward as our best star tipped into the […]
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