Best of the Net 2014 Nominations
We are pleased to announce Best of the Net nominations for 2014! Naked before the Dead by Ian Bodkin Works Cited from Our Family Vacation to Colonial Williamsburg by Tom Luckie III Fortuna, Land of Hope and Glory by Sam Martone Dirt Can’t Talk to Dirt by Robert Vivian Congratulations to all the nominees and […]
Fiction from Ryan Sartor
Roanoke I. Roger Sampson stood in front of a crowd at the First Unitarian Church, pulling the mic closer to his face. “All of you are here because you have a reasonable fear that government intrusion will result in your arrest. We’re not here to judge one another or suspect what may be the source […]
Poems by Cathy Barber
Three Short Love Poems Love arrives like a cock strutting the hen yard. The sky is clear. It stays blue. I would stay in bed but for the context. The prose moves forward, or circles. Love arrives like an evening glove, like the field itself. Sometimes not: see Godot. Where were you when the pool […]
Poem by Mitchell Grabois
Jodi Jodi Arias responded to my Match.com ad after 2013 we’ll begin to forget her and in five years the next generation won’t recognize the name any more than they recognize Love Canal but she was the one who stabbed her boyfriend so many times strangled him shot him he was a monster in a […]
Book Excerpt from Nance Van Winckel
Selections from PULL FOR STOP Says Nance Van Winckel: “Set in Chicago, PULL FOR STOP takes place in the brief span of time as two estranged lovers pull a bus cord at the same moment on the same bus. The novel is about their love affair, which was complicated from the beginning by the fact of the […]
Two poems from Nicholas Grider
FIRE SONNET (from YOUR WILDERNESS) You can’t be alarmed ‘cause you’re too busy being on fire. This has nothing to do with that fooling around at the hotel unbuttoning some mental buttons or waiting somewhere picking flowers you don’t know the names of, this is you. Sooner or later this kind of fumbling won’t be […]
Kicking off the new issue
Today’s the day! We’re really excited to bring you the first pieces of our second issue. I mentioned last week that we were going to call this one issue 1.5. Well, we changed our minds (we’re good at that!). The issue grew larger and greater than we originally thought, and we couldn’t keep the .5. […]
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