Fiction from Michael Sasso
Photo: Clark Young Charlotte’s Quantum Ride On a summer day in 1989, Charlotte bafflingly avoids certain death and slices through the solid block of Time. The six-year-old is given a narrow glimpse of things immutable and true, present and ever-existing: No matter how you fool yourself into looking to the alleged past or the so-called […]
Nonfiction from Kathryn Fitzpatrick
Photo: Andy Watkins Raggies: A Natural History “Mount Raggie is somewheres over beyond Salisbury. I met an old farmer up there…I was walkin’ along the road and I see this lad lookin’ at this pile of bones over in his pasture. ‘That there used to be a cow, mister,’ he says. ‘That’s all they left […]
Fiction from Kevin Brennan
Photo: Devin Avery Eulogy You had a way of changing on a dime. We’d wrestle you on the living room floor, cramping with laughter, till you roared a gnashing syllable and ended it, crawling up on knees red-in-the-face. You took us out on long drives and made us wait in the car for an hour […]
Fiction from Subhravanu Das
Photo: Peter F. Wolf In a Kitchen Ants came dribbling out of the tap. They licked the skillet clean. They cartwheeled over bubbles. They carouseled along the dinner plates. They took the steel glass out of Bulbul’s hands and tore it into tiny straws. They presented Bulbul with a ruby drinking horn as recompense. They […]
Poetry from Celeste Rose Wood
Photo: Pawel Czerwinski Excerpts from Disability Evaluation Under Social Security (12.00 Mental Disorders – Adult) 12.4 Depressive disorder, characterized by five or more of the following: a.……A disembodied wing; b.……Flapping with no intelligible purpose; c.……Attaching between the shoulder blades; d.……Beating the back of your neck with; e.……Something unseeable; f.…… And wrong; g.……Breezes widen their mouths; h.……To […]
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