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, […]
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 […]
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