Fiction from Joel Hans
Photo: Jana Klouckova Kudrnová The Times I’ll Trade Time with the Crows A long, long time ahead, the crows’ll give me time in exchange for my children’s possessions—my son’s owl bathtoy, the Crayons my daughter will’ve tried to sharpen with the safety scissors. The crows’ll warn me not to bite into time itself, but rather […]
Fiction from Mikki Aronoff
Photo: Dan Cristian Pădureț Kin ~ after Li-Young Lee Tonight, as all nights, my dog claws and burrows under the covers, whimpers and wrestles head-to-head with day’s demons. Is that memory’s nightwork? Soon, still. I reach to make sure he’s breathing, touch the soft ruff of his neck. He turns on his back, offers his […]
Fiction from Gary Fincke
Photo: Kartik Gada Marking the Solstice Because I was born on my mother’s birthday, our parties were divided into day and night. My friends, full of cake and ice cream, left before dinner. My mother’s friends arrived at twilight, drinking wine as the mid-summer sky went dark. But each year, at noon, before either party […]
Fiction from Rosaleen Lynch
Photo: thom masat Making Marys The first Mary is missing her head. I clean the nozzle, pick off the hardened thermoplastic halo that’s clogged and erupted in a mushroom cloud, and drop it in the scrap to be recycled and reset the 3D printer to start again, but I watch as the polymer filament threads […]
Mixed Media from Sarah J. Sloat and Dina L. Relles
Stay Tender Road Map Yellowed Desire Feminine Urge Nostalgia . . Sarah J. Sloat is the author of Hotel Almighty, a collection a visual poetry published in 2020 by Sarabande Books. Her poems, prose and collage have appeared in The Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Sixth Finch and elsewhere. You can keep up with her at sarahjsloat.com, […]
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