Nonfiction from Lily Damron
Photo: Public Domain Pictures Great Thing Dying, Living On Acer saccharinum has several names. Its epithet, saccharinum, refers to the tree’s sweet sap that can be turned into syrup. It’s also silver maple or silverleaf, since the pale green undersides of its foliage seem to shimmer silver in the sun. Or river maple, for its […]
Fiction from Debbie Graber
Photo: Liam Briese My Thesis Hypothesis: Googling “Online Master’s degree programs in Psychology” can have life-changing consequences. Preface: I’ve almost completed my Master’s degree in Psychology. This program has definitely been “super challenging.” (citation: Guam Online University YouTube infomercial). Re: 2nd Hypothesis: I’m not sure what my thesis topic is exactly. But I have to […]
Poetry from Zeynep Inanoglu
Photo: Abed Ismail Hagar’s Pilgrimage Flush with seed, my coveted belly rose and emptied like a spring I mothered with water, with the sweetest relief watched our son a marvelous creature expand beyond my self Ibrahim, in your pupils I was an animal stunned by the image of its own face I was cattle, my […]
Poetry from Kaitlen Whitt
Photo: JP Valery Calling Hours My grandmother grew up hatchet handed beheading chickens. She tells me when she sees the shooter on the news that she never plugged her ears. His lines, ghost blurry self-made reaper anointed in our stars sewn from our fear. Walker Razors to drown out the wailing. But we hear it, […]
Fiction from Sarina Bosco
Photo: Paolo Chiabrando Somnolence The last of the snow melted over a week ago and when I go outside to give the yard and garden a once-over, I can see Will’s knuckles sticking up out of the dirt. Curled under like the translucent Indian Pipe that ruptures out from the blankets of pine needles back […]
Fiction from Julia Ruth Smith
Photo: Justine Camacho A Quiet Turning Back Lonely running, your breath trails bitter. A single egret bursts from the riverbank then settles further upstream, seeming to urge you on, saying ‘not now, not yet,’ but he’s white as heavens and you know. The smell of piss in train station toilets, your fear that it will […]
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