Fiction from Sarina Bosco
Photo: Paolo Chiabrando Somnolence The last of the snow melted over a week ago and when I go outside to give the yard and garden a once-over, I can see Will’s knuckles sticking up out of the dirt. Curled under like the translucent Indian Pipe that ruptures out from the blankets of pine needles back […]
Fiction from Julia Ruth Smith
Photo: Justine Camacho A Quiet Turning Back Lonely running, your breath trails bitter. A single egret bursts from the riverbank then settles further upstream, seeming to urge you on, saying ‘not now, not yet,’ but he’s white as heavens and you know. The smell of piss in train station toilets, your fear that it will […]
Poetry from Sage Ravenwood
Photo: Anna Atkins What Happens in a Day You can’t have this day. Even with the angry overcast sky. ……….Torrential rain flooding streets, ……….slipping down wide asphalt cracks. Or the cat showing signs of ……….fleas straddling high shelves ……….room by room as if the floor is lava. Little mites seeking warmth and blood, before the […]
Poetry from Erik Tschekunow
Photo: Edgar Chaparro On the Form That Requests the Inmate’s Reentry Intentions I want to write run a pub, bottom of the steepest street, catch the tripped-up like a warm pool, all fizzier than a tippler’s wish, the empires uncorked, the stars plunged, drop in an olive, the eye sinks to unseemly things give up […]
Poetry from Paige Swan
Photo: Devon MacKay Summer, 1983. Kitty’s. I slip between the crevices of his fingertips. Pieces of me lodged in the hook of him. A pearl in his palm. Your father’s sour breath lingers in the curl of my hair. I find you there on the back steps, your knees skinned to the bone, knuckles wrapped […]
Fiction from Anita Goveas
Photo: Harpreet Singh Pluck, scrub, crush In the morning, we heat leftover rotis, roll them up like swaddled babies, and chew, chew, chew until we can choke them down. The little one dreams of the velvety feel of fresh coriander, its pungent citrus scent, gathered from the flourishing plant, but nothing green thrives here, nothing […]
Fiction from Suzanne Hicks
Photo: DeltaWorks My Sincerest Apologies First off, I just want to say that I know you might think it’s odd to hear from me since we haven’t talked in years, but I was so happy to find you on Facebook. I wanted you to know that I’m sorry I stole your Swatch watch in third […]
Fiction from Tommy Dean
Photo: Heather McKean Fastened to the Curve of the Earth The sand fastened to her body, invading the spaces between limbs, magnifying the sound of her heart in her ears, matching the crush of the waves. Faith is old enough to worry about death, but young enough not to notice the boys looking at her […]
Poetry from Ruby Rorty
Photo: Agatha Create Silhouette I want to put on a lampshade and light up the room. All my stories will become shadow acts: rabbit and coyote, rabbit and coyote. . . Ruby Rorty is a writer and health researcher in Chicago, IL. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in hex literary, Gone Lawn, and EcoTheo, among others, […]
Poetry from Annie Stenzel
Photo: Nicholas Thomas Come, cup of tea, and bid me write morning Every day, a portal opens, only to snap closed, catching part of me— a camera’s shutter, a piece of origami folded with more passion than skill. Every day, what of the words snipped out of a mind teeming with words? Ah, listen! how […]
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