Lena Hari
The Father Tree
By Lena Hari / Fiction / Matteo’s hands, rough, raw, and badly bleeding, worked to turn the burnt earth. The fires were still burning in...
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Cassidy McCants
- Dec 26, 2022
Smiling in Igneous
By Cassidy McCants / Fiction / What kind of beauty lies latent? Dormant? In the morning you walk outside to see gray. A haze that doesn’t...
J.M. Amoroso
- Dec 26, 2022
Pappa
By J.M. Amoroso / Fiction / I lose my soul in the mirror every day. I give it a year, maybe two if I’m lucky, before I face the dreaded...
S. P. Venkat
- Oct 8, 2022
What Happens When They Leave
By S. P. Venkat / Fiction / On the day of my wedding, I realized I didn't recognize my husband-to-be. He looked like a lazily picked...
Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka
- Oct 8, 2022
Little Machines
By Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka / Fiction / You are on the couch sketching the Christmas tree when you hear the growl of your brother’s Ford...
Jacquelyn Jordan
- Jun 26, 2022
God's Tryin' to Tell You Somethin'
By Jacquelyn Jordan / Fiction / As a kid, I didn’t like to play with other kids my age. In fact I didn’t even like kids my age. They...
Kwan Siu Kan Gabriel
- Jun 26, 2022
Oyayi / Lullaby
By Kwan Siu Kan Gabriel / Fiction / From her upstairs bedroom, Anastasia cries. It is 9 pm, well into the quiet hours. Her cries echo...
Sarah Young
- Jun 26, 2022
That Woman
By Sarah Young / Fiction / SPRING Bushes burst into flower, roses overflow, magnolias spill onto the broken footpaths from unkempt...
Ernest Langston
- May 12, 2022
Sign the Papers
By Ernest Langston / Fiction / The two-lane road curved up and into a pine tree forest. Country-styled houses were sprinkled along the...
Iris Harris
- May 12, 2022
When the Ohia Lehua Blossoms
By Iris Harris / Fiction / “I know it’s your week with Sam starting tonight, but I don’t think you need to come all the way down to the...
John Fried
- May 12, 2022
The Surgeon's Hands
By John Fried * for bf / Fiction / Louise sat at the bar, working on that day’s crossword, waiting for her date to arrive. He was late....
Ed Davis
- May 12, 2022
Artemis
By Ed Davis / Fiction / Marla hadn’t been home five minutes before the doorbell rang. Shit. She’d’ve ignored it except she was expecting...
Loren Mayshark
- May 12, 2022
A New Vision of an Old Tomorrow
By Loren Mayshark / Fiction / Thom grabs a plastic grocery basket with four wheels, three of them askew, and drags it into the Hemköp...
Devin Santiago Dettman
- Feb 1, 2022
When Did It Start to Hurt
by Devin Santiago Dettman / Fiction / I lay with my head on the grain of the picnic table. I’m sure it’s cutting shallow lines into my...
Emily Hessney Lynch
- Feb 1, 2022
The Button Caverns
by Emily Hessney Lynch / Fiction / Kayla usually started and ended each shift with a lemon cookie. She wasn’t sure if Lucy started baking...
Alan Toth
- Feb 1, 2022
The Kingpin of Red Bluffs
by Alan Toth / Fiction / Most people are a little confused when I tell them how I got here. They always want to know why I did it – where...
Ray Berman-Schneider
- Feb 1, 2022
Cobblestone Secrets and Hummingbird Pins
by Ray Berman-Schneider / Fiction / My mother cried the day my grandfather died. This may seem like an appropriate response, but she...
Andrew Wingfield
- Feb 1, 2022
The Prophet Rhonda
by Andrew Wingfield / Fiction / “The medicine will be there tomorrow,” the woman from the specialty pharmacy assured Oscar on the phone....
Chandler Gibb
- Feb 1, 2022
Painting
by Chandler Gibb / Fiction / Madi sits tall on her stool with her palette in one hand and brush in the other. In front of both of us are...
Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez
- Feb 1, 2022
Wooden Castles
by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez / Fiction / I’m sure you don’t think of me any longer, but today I’m thinking of you. I don’t know what it is...
Chelsey K. Shannon
- Oct 1, 2021
The Yellow Suitcase
by Chelsey K. Shannon / Fiction / Coco Bouldin wouldn’t cry about missing her train. Doing that would risk mussing her makeup and so...
Edward Belfar
- Oct 1, 2021
The Feeling Circle
by Edward Belfar / Fiction / The community session convened at 8:00 each morning in the conference center, a low, rustic-looking,...
Marilyn Ramirez
- Sep 1, 2021
Zeluma's Prelude
by Marilyn Ramirez / Fiction / It’s never easy for a daughter to remember what kind of man her father once was. More specifically, a...
James Callan
- Sep 1, 2021
Eyes on the Prize
by James Callan / Fiction / I saw her in a crowd. She? Maybe not. The sex sat right upon the edge, indeterminate. One angle revealed a...
Jeremy S. Ford
- Jul 1, 2021
This is What We Do
by Jeremy S. Ford / Fiction / I remember the first night George Cabal came to Bar D’état because it was the last night I saw Sheridan...
Ona Marae
- Jul 1, 2021
Ponytails and Popsicles
by Ona Marae / Fiction / Dulce sat in the closet, barely inhaling the musty air, flinching as she listened to the screams. It had been...
Jack Benzinger
- Jul 1, 2021
The Tallier, the Destitute
by Jack Benzinger / Fiction / Afternoon sunlight pierced through the taxi driver’s windshield and blurred his vision, just as it had...
Bruce Kamei
- Jul 1, 2021
Stars and Chickens
by Bruce Kamei / Fiction / “Tell me about Chiyoko.” “In elementary school, there was the perfect Japanese girl. Every day she wore a...
Anna Stolley Persky
- Jul 1, 2021
The Highs and Lows of Stanley Huntsville Higgins
by Anna Stolley Persky / Fiction / Let’s face it, we’re all trying to get the best high we can, one way or another. If we’re honest about...
Jordan Nishkian
- Jul 1, 2021
Wild Daughter
by Jordan Nishkian / Fiction / In grief, we keep. By the time Grandma died, her house had become a museum. This morning, when we...
Christie B. Cochrell
- Apr 1, 2021
The Persian Warrior
by Christie B. Cochrell / Fiction / During the night the fire had crept nearer to their house in the deep canyon north of town. But after...
Thomas Penn Johnson
- Apr 1, 2021
Summer's End
by Thomas Penn Johnson / Fiction / Green Mountain blackberries freshly picked in August provide the makings of a pie more highly prized...
Francis Flavin
- Apr 1, 2021
The Stain of Absolution
by Francis Flavin / Fiction / The sun shining through the stain glass windows created a noon day gloaming in the cavernous nave. The...
Feng Gooi
- Apr 1, 2021
Two Bags of Wanton Noodles, To Go Please!
by Feng Gooi / Fiction / Just as she reached out to take the bags of noodles, the woman suddenly stopped and stared at Yi Hong. She was a...
Ann Calandro
- Jan 1, 2021
Seeing You
by Ann Calandro / Fiction / The phone rang early Monday morning. I didn’t answer. “I’m selling the house,” announced Catherine. “If you...
Alex Law
- Jan 1, 2021
The Far Away Place
by Alex Law / Fiction / The boy retreated without turning back towards the maelstrom of sound. His toes gripped the carpet and felt the...
Amanda Ganus
- Jan 1, 2021
Open When
by Amanda Ganus / Fiction / Open When I Am Gone My Honey, If you are reading this, I am gone. If I am not gone yet and you have...
Devan Brettkelly
- Jan 1, 2021
Legend Trash
by Devan Brettkelly / Fiction / Ashley Hubbard lay on her back at the bottom of The Pit, watching other teens on rusty four-wheelers ride...
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