Possible First Lines of a Novel – David Rogers
I could have died that morning and no one would have been the wiser. The thieves fled on foot. Nobody...
Working Hours at the Abandoned Mill – Nolan Meditz
After Donald Keefe’s Lightwell (Au Sable Forks Papermill) (2016) Even with light beaming through the stilted arch like erasure, the...
Duende – Michael Hoerman
Let’s fall down the well, kissing; take our time, sweeten buckets. Michael Hoerman is a poet from the Ozarks. He...
Darwin and Da Vinci – Joan Mazza
Somewhere in the multiverse, somewhere past a black hole, I turn right at a silver asteroid and coast into the...
Landican Rules – Jennie Byrne
There’s a crowd. At least fifty people gathered in the car park outside St Werburgh’s Church. They’re all talking. Reminiscing....
The Reluctant Namesake – Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
The first day of school was always a major event in Miss Agnes Smith’s calendar. This is a moment of...
The Other One – Kaila Lancaster
Miriam pressed a sweaty Diet Coke can to her cheek and shifted in the lawn chair. Her jaws popped and...
Two Poems – Luis Lopez-Maldonado
Depression the sun becomes the luna & the moon becomes the sol & I turn the shower on & there...
Aging Mother – Breia-Claire Gore
You were caught day-drinking in the shadows of an angel, with your lips chapped to the pin-point crack of a...
Avedis Stood at the Rail – Michael Minassian
Avedis stood at the rail staring into the water on the crossing from Southern France into Manhattan; black waves with...