Nonfiction from John Proctor
Meditating Underwater At 8:00 this morning, I am on a dock in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, crabbing with my daughter and my nephew. The same time in Kansas, my mother is beginning back fusion surgery. At 2:00 p.m., I’ll call my stepfather to check up, and tell him to call me when the surgery […]
Fiction from Cathy Ulrich
The Girls in the Yard There are ten children in the Hansen family, and only one of them is a girl. You were never friends. She hasn’t come home since she left for college a couple of years ago. When are you coming to visit? her brothers say, and she says Next summer, for sure. […]
Nonfiction from Laura R. Becherer
Why Your Rapist Will Always Win (Warning: This essay contains descriptions of sexual assault) Here’s what will happen after you’re raped: Most people think the worst part of rape is the rape, the fast and few bleak minutes after you say no when you are held prisoner by “drunk girls are asking for it” and […]
Flash fiction from Michelle Vider
Me and Bradley Cooper and the True Dimensions of a Love Triangle A) ME AND BRADLEY COOPER (PRE-HANGOVER) There’s a quality like sweetness. It’s made of soft lighting, smiles, laughing with you but not at you. It grows in small spaces. Alias set scenes with Will Tippin in a too-small-for-tv apartment, a space where Jennifer […]
Fiction from Clio Velentza
Teeth I found a set of teeth on the sidewalk and immediately thought of my goat-footed friend, a jewelry designer secluded in a basement that shook every half hour from the passing subway and the electric saws gnawing at the world tree. The teeth weren’t human and I thought they’d make a nice bracelet, warning […]
We are happy to announce the release of our newest issue. This is our best issue yet! Contributors include: Poetry Andrea Gilham – Eve Andrea Gilham – Backdrop Sossity Chiricuzio – Chamber in my heart Marius Surleac – deep down into all this nonsense equilibrium a stare Ben Westlie – Weapon Ben Westlie – Demon Valentina […]
Found poems from J.I. Kleinberg
Editor’s Note: We are delighted to publish some “found poems” by J.I. Kleinberg. The poems are discovered text fragments by the artist in various media outlets (magazines, newspapers, etc) and reorganized with a new purpose. When asked about her process, J.I. Kleinberg says, ” You may have had the occasional experience of looking at a page in […]
Fiction from Mindy Hung
Three Drinking Stories Bodies of Water I had a job as a pool boy to a woman who claimed that water made her thirsty. She could only be satisfied with tea and freshly squeezed juices. All summer long, I picked grapefruit and lemons for her and her garbage stank of pulped fruit. I didn’t mind […]
Poetry from Marius Surleac
deep down into all this nonsense equilibrium a stare step on the cotton rocks covered with fog my tracks become liquid I become gaseous & condense on the light bulb flickering joy that has my name written in the corners and the mopboard distorts the beat of butterfly’s wings a flow of electrons […]
Poetry from Matthew Woodman
Field Dressing the moon- no subtracted negated gypsum-welled chalk-faced it’s there it isn’t how are you still here your eyes sewn your legs sown in salt it’s too much to bear it’s always been Matthew Woodman teaches composition at California State University, Bakersfield. His poems have appeared in recent issues of Agave, 300 Days of Sun, […]
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