Barefoot in the Park – Sean Winn
“Whatever. I’m going upstate to meet with Turner. I might also pick up a dog.” With that, Harold Lattimer placed...
Anti-Personification – Jay Dye
The curve of each treeis a record of windand sun, a memory ofwhat the Earth said.Each river winds the same,encoding...
Octopus Walks Into a Diner – Robert Kaye
Leonard sat at the counter of the diner nursing his coffee and applying for jobs on his laptop. Hewas sixty-two...
Abbey Gate – Brandon Marlon
By Abbey Gate did they wait, hives of humanity confined in a makeshift holding pattern, their hopes in hand, desperate...
Counter-Enlightenment – James Miller
I remember to request no straw at lunch. The waiter asks whether I’m doing so to save the planet. Yes,...
Things You Don’t Think Of – Judith Pond
2021 I’m sitting in the impossibly white waiting area of South Campus, Calgary’s new state-of-the-art hospital. My husband of two...
Gone to Ash – Tom Barlow
The flowers lose themselves in grieving and each petal falls like a day that never was, but we all agree,...
Rings – Heidie Raine
In Byron, Illinois in 1989, young state scholars and linebackers and thespians communicate their affection for their girlfriends with opal...
Youngstown, NY – Nathanael O’Reilly
Kids ride bikes along the paths in Falkner Park on a warm spring day as parents watch from nearby benches....
Peaches Water Blue – Emily Kate Hastings
She wanted the world. She wished for the first crisp bite of every red apple. She sought to paint a...