Nonfiction from Harli James
Photo: Insung Yoon Here Is an Update on This Town On an early Sunday evening in Asheville, NC, May 2018, a light mist covers the town square. A man in a pale blue racer jacket sits alone on a park bench and smokes a cigarette. His eyes have a palpating look, inspecting the long lawn […]
Fiction from Claudia Monpere
Photo: Chris Barbalis Solar Flare You interrupt your husband doing the crosswords to show him how much the sun weighs: 4,385,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds (1,989,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg). You don’t know how to say these numbers, so you point to your tablet. He grunts, then asks you for a five-letter word that’s part of a ship’s hull under the […]
Nonfiction from RT Villa
Photo: Kwon Junho In My Father’s Kitchen When I was twelve years old, my father summoned me into the kitchen. Dad stood bent over the counter, his large hands dredged in flour and egg. “Wash your hands,” he told me. “We’re making eggplant parmesan.” It’s snowing just past my crooked window. There’s a hole in […]
Fiction from Elliott Gish
Photo: Kostiantyn Vierkieiev Nestling They called a curfew in Laherty after Rufus Orville got snatched. By 6 PM, all the kids in the neighborhood had to be inside. That damn near killed us, since it was summer. We’d watch the blazing sun from the shadows of our bedrooms, thinking of all the fun we could […]
Nonfiction from Annie Marhefka
Photo: Joanna Huang How to make friends There are two mothers watching the entrance when the little girls disappear into the hay maze. There are two mothers with sleeping babies strapped to their chests, phones slipped into back pockets, spit-up stains on their blouses. One mother has her hair in a ponytail. The other left […]
Nonfiction from Sophie Fetokaki
Photo: Glen Carrie § § 1.1 For some reason the way of telling has become very important to me. If I want to tell what is happening now, I must find a way. I cannot tell without a way. The trees do not tell me now. I cannot hear their way of telling. My mother […]
Nonfiction from Lily Damron
Photo: Public Domain Pictures Great Thing Dying, Living On Acer saccharinum has several names. Its epithet, saccharinum, refers to the tree’s sweet sap that can be turned into syrup. It’s also silver maple or silverleaf, since the pale green undersides of its foliage seem to shimmer silver in the sun. Or river maple, for its […]
Fiction from Debbie Graber
Photo: Liam Briese My Thesis Hypothesis: Googling “Online Master’s degree programs in Psychology” can have life-changing consequences. Preface: I’ve almost completed my Master’s degree in Psychology. This program has definitely been “super challenging.” (citation: Guam Online University YouTube infomercial). Re: 2nd Hypothesis: I’m not sure what my thesis topic is exactly. But I have to […]
Poetry from Zeynep Inanoglu
Photo: Abed Ismail Hagar’s Pilgrimage Flush with seed, my coveted belly rose and emptied like a spring I mothered with water, with the sweetest relief watched our son a marvelous creature expand beyond my self Ibrahim, in your pupils I was an animal stunned by the image of its own face I was cattle, my […]
Poetry from Kaitlen Whitt
Photo: JP Valery Calling Hours My grandmother grew up hatchet handed beheading chickens. She tells me when she sees the shooter on the news that she never plugged her ears. His lines, ghost blurry self-made reaper anointed in our stars sewn from our fear. Walker Razors to drown out the wailing. But we hear it, […]
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