Fiction from Pia Quintano
Photo: Austin Human Monster Men from Outer Space The monster men came from outer space, their sideburns fizzing as they burned through the atmosphere, space dust beading up on their brows. They landed right in the crotch of the country and traveled inward through all the women who stood like trees with parted roots on […]
Fiction from Kim Magowan
Photo: Viktor Forgacs The Last Faculty Meeting The last full faculty meeting of the semester was held a mere two days after Commencement—two days since they had been sweating in their heavy regalia, thirsty and bored. The silver lining was that the meeting had been moved from in-person to Zoom. The rumor was the college […]
Nonfiction from Barrett Bowlin
Original Photo: Timothy Eberly Out for Blood (or Air, or Whatever) You stumble through the gym doors, away from the people and into the almost-snow cold, skin so hot to the touch that steam rises off you into the night air. You hop the Red Line to Porter Square, where there’s ten minutes before the […]
Nonfiction from grace (ge) gilbert
Photo: Dan Meyers I realize I am a serial monogamist. * Sautéing yellow onions in my mother’s home, a moment breaks open in the way moments do—senselessly. Do I actually want to be married? The voice seemingly crawls out of some pit or another, perhaps coaxed into the foremeats of my brain by the familiar […]
Poetry from Paul Reyns
Photo: Jeff Finley The Woman Who Rowed with Klimt When she was young her father told her that though she walk forever only God could round a lake. He named her Krystal after the purity of water. For her thirteenth birthday, she received a rowboat and had the run of an Austrian hamlet. At first […]
Nonfiction from Kailee Marie Pedersen
The Cordeliad KING LEAR What can you say to draw ………………………..A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak. CORDELIA Nothing, my lord. After my grandparents and parents die, I will inherit one third of my family’s farm in Fremont, Nebraska. I have no idea how […]
Poetry from Madison Tompkins
Anamnesis It’s all slow motion until it’s not, until you can’t even remember it happening, until it didn’t happen at all. It’s like the comb sorting through your hair knowing it will be tangled again. It’s like the van door being slammed on your thumb, bruising your nail until it falls off. …………I am the […]
Poetry from Marne Wilson
Earthshaking News He wished to say he loved her, but he could not find the courage. Instead he asked her who she favored for the Superbowl. She said she did not follow football. Their voices escalated, ascended to the mountains. The avalanche was quick and soundless. The melting waters rushed eddying to the sea, and […]
Fiction from Jude Conlee
By the Side of the Road I could do so much more than the stain-ridden state of a world has left me. I could make so many more things out of what rushes by me but my eyes always blink, I can’t hold my lids steady and the everything around is blurs of red and […]
Fiction from Simon Phillips
The Hero’s Return Maybe you won’t believe me but it’s true—I had that thing happen to me we all fear. Sometimes we play the scenario out in our twisted minds to torture ourselves, like the sore on your tongue you scrape with your teeth because really you like the pain. A classic. So I’m walking […]
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