Fiction from Sage Tyrtle
Photo: Jr Korpa Stella Is Smashed Stella is tipsy. At dusk she and Harry are listing down the sidewalk to a smaller, darker bar. She trips and Harry catches her arm. They both pitch forward, laughing. She twines her arms around Harry’s neck and brushes her lipsticked lips over his five o’clock shadow. Tickles his […]
Fiction from Gray Birchby
Photo: Jeremy Bishop Remembering the Ocean Chapter Eight: In which my father asks me to go into the ocean “No.” Chapter One: In which I go to the ocean for the first time There is sand and salt and shells and I love this place, so full of sunlight. I am four years old […]
Poetry from Harper Campbell
Photo: Zian For Highway in Calgary there is a long highway it cuts through everything it cuts me down the middle I touch the cars hot in the sun the smell of concrete something is spoiling in the sun the cars go by very fast the smell of sweetgrass the smell of sweetgrass . . […]
Poetry from Virginia Laurie
Photo: Vita Marija Murenaite Aloe vera She comes in like aloe on fried cheeks, all the sand behind my ear finally rinsed away, she is all flowing, pebbles in shoe unstuck, all the air, mint, unstuck. We take care of each other for free. . . Virginia Laurie studies English at Washington & Lee University. […]
Nonfiction from Diane Gottlieb
Photo: Gio Bartlett Hunger Take two pieces of Wonder Bread, Classic White. Place them side by side on a dessert plate. In a small, black, cast-iron frying pan, toss a healthy slab of butter. Two tablespoons. Three if you dare! Turn the flame on low. While the butter melts, take a paring knife to a […]
Fiction from J.B. Stone
Photo: engin akyurt Suddenly -Everything was cake—and everything I thought wouldn’t be cake—was cake. I thought it was a nightmare of unknown origin tattooed to my psyche, but no. Now everything I knew—know now—and will ever know for the rest of my days: cake. The pair of Converse stacked tightly next to my closet was […]
Fiction from Mary Lynn Reed
Photo: Sérgio Alves Santo True Things Thirty minutes standing at the bar, me complaining of my loneliness. She takes a long drag of beer, and asks, “Have you reconsidered dating?” “I have no time or energy for that nonsense again,” I say. She nods, sets the beer down. “You can call me. More than monthly, […]
Fiction from Michael Sasso
Photo: Clark Young Charlotte’s Quantum Ride On a summer day in 1989, Charlotte bafflingly avoids certain death and slices through the solid block of Time. The six-year-old is given a narrow glimpse of things immutable and true, present and ever-existing: No matter how you fool yourself into looking to the alleged past or the so-called […]
Nonfiction from Kathryn Fitzpatrick
Photo: Andy Watkins Raggies: A Natural History “Mount Raggie is somewheres over beyond Salisbury. I met an old farmer up there…I was walkin’ along the road and I see this lad lookin’ at this pile of bones over in his pasture. ‘That there used to be a cow, mister,’ he says. ‘That’s all they left […]
Fiction from Kevin Brennan
Photo: Devin Avery Eulogy You had a way of changing on a dime. We’d wrestle you on the living room floor, cramping with laughter, till you roared a gnashing syllable and ended it, crawling up on knees red-in-the-face. You took us out on long drives and made us wait in the car for an hour […]
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