Name in the Sand Divyank J __________ The water cut the sand and went back to the ocean, erasing our names. __________ Divyank J is a writer from Udaipur, India. He has been featured in several anthologies, journals and magazines such as Notions of Living, Notions of Healing, Chariots of…

Overlapping Definitions of Infinity Carol Dorf __________ In childhood infinite time is waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen – when reaching the moment of the dripping ice cream cone takes one forever two forevers three forevers more – while in adult life there is the infinity between…

Blue Laws Amy Barnes __________ The milk that Ellie still expresses, ounce by precious ounce – is so translucent that it’s almost Delft or sky azure, a faint hint of color glowing like radioactive, futile tactile milk, the liquid of a failed, but obedient woman – the kind that observes…

The Wasteland Prosper C. Ìféányí __________ And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens…

Plotting Grant Faulkner __________ A wise writer once said that “the king died, and then the queen died,” is a story, but that “the king died, and then the queen died of grief,” now that was a plot, except the king died of a heart attack while in amorous congress…

One-Sentence Stories Letter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ First year: fabulous! __________ To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.