Nonfiction from Roman Cherevko
Original Photo: Julian Hochgesang The Pigeons Are Gone I didn’t notice when the feathered creatures disappeared, but something was wrong. I started analyzing my insomnia, looking for that small detail that could have changed my entire sleep-wake cycle. And here it was. No cooing from the kitchen hood as the birds perched on the rooftop […]
Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he headed southward on horseback with a third wife, a son from a former marriage, and six strong donkeys laden with rugs and silver, soon arriving in Addis […]
Fiction from Melissa Fitzpatrick
Photo: Mostafa Ashram Mostafa Only Water, Then Sky When you’re a fish, it doesn’t occur to you to look up, to try to see past the edge of the known world. There is only water, and how the water moves the kelp, and how the kelp moves with the water, back and forth, back and […]
Nonfiction from Gail DiMaggio
Photo: Marek Piwnicki Helpless Why didn’t we help, a neighbor asks me, though helping them wasn’t really possible and it’s too late now, anyway. Wolves, she adds. Even wolves help their own. I’m not sure she’s right about the wolves. I decide to look it up later. —§— It’s June, 2022. Concord, New Hampshire, our […]
Fiction from Alexis Jamilee Carter
Photo: Kind and Curious You’ve Left a Candle Burning, and It Seeks Revenge Henrietta St. Claire’s home is going up in flames. The fire department isn’t on the way. Neighbors huddle together across the street, whispering their horror and pity. They do not speak of their gratitude for detached housing. They all think the other […]
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