First the heat. Then the clouds. Then the rain falling like teeth from the sky’s mouth. […]
Poetry
He was easy to spot back then: rolled up sleeves, vocalized ambivalence on female genitalia, the […]
Evolution of the Grade School Bully by Michael Mayerhofer
TQ2 Prose Open Runner-Up 1. And the waitress said, girls, grits is like grace. You don’t order […]
The Longevity of Bone by Laurel Blossom
I. Boat towed past fires […]
definitive mechanisms for monetizing forests by Jan Clausen
Maeve knows two types: Stockless & Classic as in the tattoo with stock shank arm and […]
ANCHORS by Tina Cane
Never so-and-so passed on, abruptly soft-voiced like a kid describing how his best friend failed his […]
I Love How Old People Talk About the Dead by ...
Every sound I hear is stiff, perpendicular Like massive iron hammers clanging and clanging upon anvil […]
Sounds by Zheng Xiaoqiong translated by Jonathan Stalling and Xian ...
Ming Di: Yugoslavian movies about World […]
Ming Di Interviews Croatian poet Damir Šodan
The oxygen machine trembles, clicks, hisses. Through clear green tubes running into the bedroom, up to […]
The Visit by Jeff Oaks
(excerpt from THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE) I […]
[First Taxi] by Sam Taylor
always a lion (though always the zoo is gutted) wanders through this scene: the empty seething […]
The Afterlion by Sarah Wolfson
One of the primary pleasures of editing a journal is coming across a […]