Fiction from Mandira Pattnaik
Photo: Harald Matern When It Freezes, You Realize the Sugar Maple Tree Holds Its Snow In your crazy fairytale, your husband is an elf, your home a postcard, the time Christmas, with holiday roasts and popular jokes. The Sugar Maple tree, soaring to the azure, colonizing the void above your backyard, is heavy with milky […]
Poetry from Tessa Ekstrom
Photo: Yuvraj Singh Trash Castle I am a creature of the Heat and your Galaxy is made of Sawdust you burned Down an entire forest To make room for Our home, but look, There’s nothing To build it with. I am a creature of the Silence and you sprinkle Glass shards in our shoes, We […]
Fiction from Megan Driscoll
Photo: Andrew Seaman Modes of Reproduction Pacific Salmon are this funny thing called semelparous. It was a word Ellie taught me, years before she left. She’d sounded it out by the syllable: sem-el-par-ous. Sem like seminary, where she swore Brian Silver was bound to end up, el like Ellie, what she’d called herself since deciding […]
Nonfiction from Despy Boutris
Photo: Cristian Palmer Two Friends Confront Mortality We’re treading in the middle of the lake, the water deep enough to drown us. My eyes fix to some point in the distance, beyond the eucalyptus and pines making outlines against the night sky. He lifts his hands to the surface and splashes my face with water […]
Poetry from J.I. Kleinberg
Hannah the way . . Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram […]
Nonfiction from Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
Photo: Clay Banks Retelling Dawn My knuckle scrapes dry bark. I am searching for wolves where I know there are no wolves. This skin pales, my eyes bloodshot as targets, the gangly forest stretching up & up, its needled arms stories off the ground. From the underbrush riddled with sharp teeth & knifelike jaws. I […]
Fiction from Jessica June Rowe
Original Photo: Rod Long Underage. I watch my grandmother age backward. Black finds its way into her brittle grey ends and seeps upward, her hair growing fuller, hiding the speckled patches of her scalp. Her skin smooths and thickens; no more bruises and purple-pinched veins. She leaves indents in the armrests when she pushes […]
Fictions from Bronwen Griffiths
Photo: Peter Bond The Sky Between Us She is shouting to her child at the entrance to the supermarket and she is still shouting as I trail around the aisles searching for whatever it is I am supposed to buy and she is shouting as I come out through the automatic doors even though the […]
Poetry from Betsy Cornwell
Photo: Thimo Pedersen Rich A heavy sugar bowl. Fresh fruit, the kind my child likes. Not counting money at the grocery store. Two months’ rent paid at once, and knowing I will go to sleep tonight with only my own silence in my heart. . . Betsy Cornwell is the story editor and digital editor […]
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