Fiction from Lila Rabinovich
Photo: Marten Bjork Careful There The girl peeks through the shop window, which is covered with Christmas decorations this time of year. She’s curious about what’s inside. Cute pencils with fluffy tops, probably, and colorful socks and little stuffed owls and such. From outside, she can see a rack of pink and blue t-shirts, a […]
Fiction from Alexandra M. Matthews
Photo: Jordon Conner Clare Clare was all teeth and giggles, biting the edge of her cup. Ethan was coming to the concert. They had been texting for weeks. She tore the bottom away from the cup. It looked like a small paper crown. “What if I give this to him?” She placed it on my […]
Poetry from KG Newman
Photo: Mick Haupt The Pride Acre Bison extinction redux, assured technology to autofeed the orange calves backfiring but ignored: ………………..hence full-size skeleton ribcages ………………..strewn across our dream on the plains, ………………..the kids with no friends and plucking ………………..sad harmonies on dried, stretched sinew ………………..just to drown out the loud farmhouse kitchen. The machine of decisions […]
Poetry from Beverly Burch
Photo: Ilkka Kärkkäinen Incantation to Avian Followers Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. — Chinese proverb A halo of feathers and chorusing. Such a twitter, such love songs. Wings beating wildly, devotion trembles in the air. Stupid warblers, a little red sprig is my heart. Angel-squawkers. Fledgling disciples. […]
Fiction from Chloe N. Clark
Photo: Nathan Duck There Is the World Within This Window — for Brian They might say I don’t dream, but that’s not true. I dream so often that sometimes I don’t remember waking up. Here are some of the things I was programmed for: cost-benefit analysis, strategic outcome prediction, high risk analysis, defense. My goals: […]
Poetry from Daryl Sznyter
Photo: Alexandru Acea first date i left my heart in my car my heart was a car my car was exhausted my heart was exhaust my heart was a pipe bomb i wore sweatpants that day […]
Nonfiction from Sophia Roumeliotis
Photo: Nathan Dumlao WHAT I ATE WHY i gained the freshman fifteen during my freshman year of college. i ate so much and all the time. i had so many friends and i was so happy. i needed to buy new pants after winter break because they were all too tight. i ate on my […]
Fiction from Mialise Carney
Photo: Brandon Hoogenboom When Lagoons Turn Lavender Lagoon wanted to be a geologist, the weird kind, but I guess all good geologists are. She’d been stuck on Canfield Oceans since I’d known her, and I couldn’t really imagine her without them. All she ever talked about was the process of decay, The Great Dying, the […]
Nonfiction from Anna Hundert
Photo: Kara Michalczyk Lace Lessons lace (noun): cotton or silk, knitted or twisted, or clinging to skin, or lying on the table waiting to be touched (as in lace doilies) / lace (noun): they come in pairs, looping around each other in knots; they keep her shoes on her feet when she runs (away) / […]
Fiction from Jackie Kenny
Photo: Samuel Scrimshaw Salt My girlfriend has built her house on the salt flats. The salt flats lie bone white and glittering in the mountains, thousands of feet above the cold roaring sea. She told me that a hundred years ago, the flats were a clear blue lake, salty enough that small stones would float […]
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