Eight Steps to Enlightenment Greta HayerMay 11, 2021 step 1. separate the lights and darks, the things that clash, your mess from his mess. you cannot clean his mess. his stains have set deep... Flash Fiction0 Comments
The Bees Grant Gerald MillerMay 3, 2021 The neighbor was covered in bees. I knew which neighbor it was because he always wore dirty house slippers and jogging pants and I... Flash Fiction0 Comments
like love but better Annakeara StinsonApril 29, 2021 why desire smooch lips affection? be raked out lightening. dry grass painted yellow, Ames packing tubs, doldrums of late-day in a rural area... Flash Fiction0 Comments
17 Tara Stillions WhiteheadApril 22, 2021 The townhouse on Agua Hedionda is two miles from the payphone on PCH where Janae picks me up, but it’s too early for Bob to be awake and we ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Hexed Brett PribbleApril 21, 2021 He inhaled flies. They glided off the sap in the floorboards, the ground meat seeping out of its plastic, his stacks of soiled overalls. Out... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Anniversary Natalie WartherApril 14, 2021 It was Sunday, we’d already done the chores, nothing was on TV, and sex was still off the table, so we switched bodies, just to see what it ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
The Sweetheart Murder Ballad Room E. C. WatsonMay 10, 2021 It’s hard for Harrison to see why anyone would break into Miller’s Folk Music Museum. Even during opening hours, the one-room roadside attra... Fiction0 Comments
IN THE DARK ROOM Claudia LundahlMay 6, 2021 Alice is at Jane’s house. They’re stretched out on the floor on their stomachs with their faces propped up in their palms. They’re watching ... Fiction0 Comments
Keeping Warm Logan CoxApril 28, 2021 Sweet pea, put on your coat, it’s cold out.” “Cold? How cold?” “It’s 28 degrees.” My daughter looked at me, confused. I rolled my e... Fiction0 Comments
Do You Like Death Metal? Steve GergleyApril 27, 2021 A few weeks after me and Kyoko got back together for the second time, we went to the wedding for one of her friends from work. Kyoko hadn’t ... Fiction0 Comments
The Town Keegan SwensonApril 27, 2021 When we arrived in the town everyone looked at us like we were little objects they could tame with their eyes. In those days, we craved appr... Fiction0 Comments
The Same as Cherry Brendan SheehanApril 21, 2021 We’re sitting cross-legged on the balcony, messing with the clippers on loan from the clinic. A rusty sunset eases its way out of gunmetal s... Fiction0 Comments
for joanna love Patti CreamerMay 5, 2021 before I was born I was noiseless, nothingness now I have clasps holding my jaw wide open my tonsils and my teeth are hum... Poetry0 Comments
Sudden Death in Late Summer Montgomery MaxtonMay 4, 2021 August is swamp month in New York City. At a cool wine bar in Brooklyn Heights we order the mains of brunch. An egg— where everythi... Poetry0 Comments
It Tasted Like That One Summer Ryan NormanApril 20, 2021 Sometimes I think I would give anything to taste that summer again. Your sweat, my sweat. You tasted of apples and grass and Tennessee whisk... Poetry0 Comments
Existential Poem on a Monday Susan L. LearyMarch 8, 2021 People die all the time on a Monday because the science behind it is so elegant. One more thing crossed off the to-do list: brush your teeth... Poetry0 Comments
Unpolished Victoria NordlundFebruary 16, 2021 You sip your Fit Vine wine from your filled-to-the-top Yeti. You don’t want to get up to pour more. Or, maybe, you want to say you only hav... Poetry0 Comments
the night i lived Michelle DrozdickFebruary 15, 2021 every night the backyard of the hookah lounge next door used to fill up with the usual crowd loudly enjoying the world and its splendors ... Poetry0 Comments
The World Through A Poet’s Eyes: An Interview with Dani Putney Gauraa ShekharApril 30, 2021 Dani Putney’s Salamat sa Intersectionality is a raw and tender interrogation of identity. Divided into three panels—‘Youthful Absolution’, ‘... Interviews0 Comments
A Shape-Shifting Flow Morphs Into its Final Form: An Interview with Christine Shan Shan Hou April 23, 2021
A New Kind of Poetics to Get Us Closer to Progress: An Interview with Michael Chang February 26, 2021
How Shootings Go Viral: A Review of Jeff Chon’s Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun Mallory SmartApril 20, 2021 On this day 22 years ago news coverage about Columbine spread rapidly, and broadly. By the time the shooters exhausted all their energy from... Reviews0 Comments
“A “Collected Works” Comprised of All the Times Your Life Fell Apart” / A Review of Brian Alan Ellis’ Sad Laughter November 30, 2020
WHAT PERMITS OUR IMAGINATION: A Review Of The Internet Is For Real by Chris Campanioni November 25, 2020
