Fiction from Claudia Monpere
Photo: Chris Barbalis Solar Flare You interrupt your husband doing the crosswords to show him how much the sun weighs: 4,385,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds (1,989,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg). You don’t know how to say these numbers, so you point to your tablet. He grunts, then asks you for a five-letter word that’s part of a ship’s hull under the […]
Nonfiction from RT Villa
Photo: Kwon Junho In My Father’s Kitchen When I was twelve years old, my father summoned me into the kitchen. Dad stood bent over the counter, his large hands dredged in flour and egg. “Wash your hands,” he told me. “We’re making eggplant parmesan.” It’s snowing just past my crooked window. There’s a hole in […]
Fiction from Elliott Gish
Photo: Kostiantyn Vierkieiev Nestling They called a curfew in Laherty after Rufus Orville got snatched. By 6 PM, all the kids in the neighborhood had to be inside. That damn near killed us, since it was summer. We’d watch the blazing sun from the shadows of our bedrooms, thinking of all the fun we could […]
Nonfiction from Annie Marhefka
Photo: Joanna Huang How to make friends There are two mothers watching the entrance when the little girls disappear into the hay maze. There are two mothers with sleeping babies strapped to their chests, phones slipped into back pockets, spit-up stains on their blouses. One mother has her hair in a ponytail. The other left […]
Nonfiction from Sophie Fetokaki
Photo: Glen Carrie § § 1.1 For some reason the way of telling has become very important to me. If I want to tell what is happening now, I must find a way. I cannot tell without a way. The trees do not tell me now. I cannot hear their way of telling. My mother […]
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