Fictions from Rebecca Harrison
Photo: Olen Gandy Chimney-side We lived where the fires were. The chimneys tall as skies, broader than river mouths. Our homes clung to the chimney sides. Our streets were stairways that never reached to the ground. Our homes were filled with the fire sounds. The crackle and hiss rumbled through the bricks. Genna sat on […]
Fiction from Michelle Ross
Photo: adrian Snapshot She was driving home, the mountains starting to purple like turnip tops, when she saw a man with his head in his hands. He was in his car, which was parked off the road in the field of dirt in front of that new church, the one with the sign that read, […]
Poetry from Robert Wilson
Photo: Christopher Paul High Mastectomy Alive in this nursery of cruelty, clots forming like sticky blossoms blooming into a poultice of petals along a scar traversing your heart, you cannot lift your arm, you cannot keep your head above the currents of morphine eddying along the shores of your breath. The left side of your […]
Fiction from Bikram Sharma
Photo: Florence Landry Between Bodies Amrit’s fingers close around the ladybird. It’s the most valuable type, red with black dots, and if he’s careful he could show it off to his classmates or keep it in a glass jar by his bed. Instead he swallows it whole. Down it goes, down into his stomach. He […]
Poetry from Zara Hanif
Photo: Morgan Vander Hart Just Another Dead Grandma Poem I’m trying to write while trying not to think about last night. I rummage under my desk and try to open a tied grocery bag with two bottles of Rosscato. I want wine before my first class, but I’m too tired to untie the bag without […]
Fiction from Beth Gilstrap
Photo: Damon Lam Maybe You Catch Another Ray of Sun We had pizza with mushrooms for Mom’s birthday. She picked crunchy-bottomed pan crust. With the dough sticking to the backs of our teeth, we sang to her, handed over hand-drawn cards smudged with grease, asked her what it was like to be forty. “Not so […]
Nonfiction from Myna Chang
Photo: Jon Tyson Playground Justice In the grit of a 1975 farm town, 9-year-old girls weigh about 60 pounds, even wicked little girls with bad women for mommas, divorced mommas, but the boys that age are bigger, taller, and they’re allowed to bring their footballs to the playground, because there are no rules for boys […]
Nonfiction from Emily James
Photo: Barry Zhou Directions for Substitute Attendance is in the blue folder. Annie will do it, you don’t even have to ask. She colors the circles dark and deep, she doesn’t even need to call their names. Play music if you want to. They may dance, may look at you and laugh. Some will ask: […]
Fiction from Kathryn Kulpa
Photo: Michael Olsen What the Selkies Know It’s easy enough to become human if you really want to. The mermaids are so dramatic about it, tongues lopped off in terrible sacrifice, filling the ocean with their blood, their silent tears. Dry air rasping through their lungs like fire. The agonies they bear, these martyred fish-wives. […]
Poetry from Lara Arikan
Photo: ekrem osmanoglu In the village in the weeds they sucked…………it out of me i never heard it squeal i never heard it cry there was no………..delivery it’s out of me now . . Lara Arikan is an Ankara-based poet and electronic musician. Some of Lara’s work has appeared in Bilkent University’s weekly publication Bilkent […]
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