Drivers Ed David Armand __________ It’s Saturday. Early in the morning and my parents are already dropping me off at a strip mall in downtown Covington, Louisiana, where I’m going to spend the next eight hours taking a drivers education course so that I can get my license the following…
Read MoreEncounter Benjamin Kessler __________ Turns out Studs Henry had been keeping exotic animals on eleven acres east of Red Butte. That’s pretty fucked, forcing zebras and meerkats to freeze through the high plains winters. Making things worse was the fact that, right before Studs ate his gun, he opened all…
Read MoreAdam Tavel __________ Nightie edamame green and lace the lastAugust breeze blew through itlike a windsock the idle rich soarabove their beachfront cottage to saylook even the air we own that too at twelve I was old enough to want itagainst my cheek but didn’t nor did Iwant to see…
Read MoreThe Sound of Silence Amanda Hays __________ Ray couldn’t decide which of the oozing, bleeding bags of meat would most please his brother. The overhead lights in the meat section of the Piggy Wiggly were dim, the air cool. After much deliberation, he tossed one of the packages into his…
Read MoreKimberly Ann Southwick __________ This Line Will Keep You Safe after Julia Brandenberger’s “Funeral For Expectations” | January 2, 2020 | Philadelphia, PA The women in the corridor with merry, choking laughter,are be-lit behind a door closed to us, caved in darkness,our backs against the studio walls, socked feet on…
Read MoreWe Are Cut From Shorter Days Anthony Okpunor __________ you will speak through the mouth of a sea& know i’m not dead. one day the sun will rise on your tongue& give a language of salt and mercury. i will be there in the water, lockinga song of grief in…
Read MoreLast Winter My Father Abandoned Me in the Forest With My Brother, Who Was Eaten by a Witch; I Burned Her to Death In the Spring. Juleigh Howard-Hobson __________ I’m alive — although I am not happy;I am hungry most of the time, and whenIt’s hot I’m thirsty. When the…
Read MoreAsh Goedker __________ Grams Writes a Letter of Advice to a Single Father Raising Minnesota Child If she maintains the dinosauris how she’ll deliver Halloween, if she bawls a joke and missesthe punch line; if she dawdlesat all, she’s sure as heck yours. If this Christmas she begs a realstocking…
Read MoreEleanor Boudreau __________ Earnest Postcard Dear Earnest,The front of a motorcycle reminds me of my reproductive system—handle bars the fallopian tubes, mirrors ovaries, headlight uterus,and front wheel vagina. Working in the barn, I fit my sweaty fingers in a glove,and remember you at your cruelest,“Get thee to a nunnery. To…
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