One-Sentence Stories: Summer I, 2024 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Guest Editor: Taylor Mahone Assistant Editors: Karris Rae, Aiman Tariq, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Editorial Assistants: Mia Bonds, Alexandria Knight Victoria de Benedicty, UNTITLED Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor…
Read MoreMichael Robins Michael Robins is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Bright Invisible (Saturnalia Books, 2022). His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, The Common, New England Review, and Poetry magazine. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he teaches in the MFA program at McNeese State University. Visit…
Read MoreGwenyth Wheat Gwenyth Wheat is a MFA/MA candidate at McNeese State University. She is the Assistant Poetry Editor for the McNeese Review and a writing tutor for MSU. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Great…
Read MoreCemetery One Nighter Paul Corman-Roberts __________ It isn’t the name she told you, the name that isn’t her real name but the name they told your friend, heartbroken back in the pizza joint you hit up where you first squeezed her thigh under the table out of your friend’s sight, neither of you knowing she was death, happy to clasp your fingers…
Read MoreThe Music Carries Me Like The Wind Carries My Voice Vallie McGallion, High School Contest Winner __________ As if the sunlight, warm on my skin Seeped below, trickled within I feel the melody within me, visceral Metaphorical, and all the while, literal The beach’s breeze, blowing in my hair Carries…
Read MoreOn Becoming a Country Music Song Jenny Yang Cropp __________ That first night, I traced invisible letters in the shower, water carving their song into my skin. A mother-no-mother girl could have a new mother if only she changed her middle name to Lynn. L – Y – N –…
Read MoreThree Songs Mike Wilson __________ I A bird untucks her head from her wing. measures the spaciousness of sky. Clutching the branch, she feels the tree drinking earth with the beak of its roots. Without thought, she sings I am happy this morning before fighting for food begins. II King’s…
Read MoreThe Music’s Gonna Get You Margo Williams __________ Caitlin saw him from across the tavern. He was at least ten years older than she, maybe more. His dark hair grew in waves to his shoulders; his five o’clock shadow was sexy. He strummed his guitar with such purpose. Long pale…
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