Fiction from Megan Driscoll
Photo: Andrew Seaman Modes of Reproduction Pacific Salmon are this funny thing called semelparous. It was a word Ellie taught me, years before she left. She’d sounded it out by the syllable: sem-el-par-ous. Sem like seminary, where she swore Brian Silver was bound to end up, el like Ellie, what she’d called herself since deciding […]
Nonfiction from Despy Boutris
Photo: Cristian Palmer Two Friends Confront Mortality We’re treading in the middle of the lake, the water deep enough to drown us. My eyes fix to some point in the distance, beyond the eucalyptus and pines making outlines against the night sky. He lifts his hands to the surface and splashes my face with water […]
Poetry from J.I. Kleinberg
Hannah the way . . Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram […]
Nonfiction from Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
Photo: Clay Banks Retelling Dawn My knuckle scrapes dry bark. I am searching for wolves where I know there are no wolves. This skin pales, my eyes bloodshot as targets, the gangly forest stretching up & up, its needled arms stories off the ground. From the underbrush riddled with sharp teeth & knifelike jaws. I […]
Fiction from Jessica June Rowe
Original Photo: Rod Long Underage. I watch my grandmother age backward. Black finds its way into her brittle grey ends and seeps upward, her hair growing fuller, hiding the speckled patches of her scalp. Her skin smooths and thickens; no more bruises and purple-pinched veins. She leaves indents in the armrests when she pushes […]
Fictions from Bronwen Griffiths
Photo: Peter Bond The Sky Between Us She is shouting to her child at the entrance to the supermarket and she is still shouting as I trail around the aisles searching for whatever it is I am supposed to buy and she is shouting as I come out through the automatic doors even though the […]
Poetry from Betsy Cornwell
Photo: Thimo Pedersen Rich A heavy sugar bowl. Fresh fruit, the kind my child likes. Not counting money at the grocery store. Two months’ rent paid at once, and knowing I will go to sleep tonight with only my own silence in my heart. . . Betsy Cornwell is the story editor and digital editor […]
Nonfiction from Rachel Laverdiere
Photo: George Pagan III For the Love of (Dis)Order “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” – M.C. Escher I sandwich the pillows that were yours between the bed and the wall, inhale the scent of freshly laundered sheets and wait for sleep to descend. Eventually, I stare out the window. Attempt to […]
Fiction from Marvin Shackelford
Photo: Michael Dziedzic A Tragic Misstep in Evolution One day they’ll dig me from the limestone and ash so long settled around my frame and wonder what to do with me. The scene should be instructive: primitive homo-whatever we’re called by then, -sapient long since come and gone and forgotten, simply laid down and died […]
Nonfiction from Lori Brack
Photo: Adam Littman Davis The Ground, Remembering Between birth and the Siamese kitten I begged for when I was five, there were ants: an unending caravan of them plying the beveled crack in the concrete patio where I knelt, sun baking my dark hair soft. At intervals, an ant would cling to the bevel, hang […]
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