Screaming in a Stack of Hay Bales
By Matt McGuirk Sometimes I wonder how little they knew of Jason. We were all friends, but did they really…
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The Great Red Spot
By Sage Agee My chest leaks liquid sentiment. Sustaining another life sometimesmeans forgetting my own. There is darkness in pumping white milk…
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Home Resurrection
By Allison DeDecker I am a house with bees in the walls.Beneath these sun-bleached boards, inside the jagged, gaping holes hums life.…
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Your Mother and her Technicolor Idioms
By Connie Millard “I caught him red-handed, that bastard,” your mother wails during her nightly call to your grandmother. In…
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Riptides
By Leanne Su Marina X was born by the sea. Her full name wasn’t Marina X; it was Marina Xingqi…
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Stone Walls
By Matt Schultz Here, along the field’s corrugated ridge and furrow,the swell and swerve of moss-mortared stack-stones.Here the Tridentine Mass…
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Sunk
By Cat Dixon It was deemed necessary to evacuate the submarine—oxygen levels low and waterflowed through the vents. Legends of ghost…
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From the Greek Word for Dance
By Shannon Frost Greenstein “What do you mean you’re not going to tell Charles?” I can feel my mouth hanging…
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ROOTS
By Anukriti Yadav I. Belongingness is never granted, or even secure in its acquisition— life teaches you that. you don’t…
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Cadmus gazes at Thebes in ruins
By Penel Alden Horror held me in place Held my arms at my ribs Wide thirsty nostrils clutching for the air Throat and…
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The Visit
By Claire Marsden The unhurried weight of your embrace, familiar, at first touch. Your tongue, gentled with sunshine, circles upon…
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If You Give a Girl a Pocket Knife
By Sarah Bean The night we slept in a tent full of stars,I learned how to use a knife.How to…
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