I work for a boutique footwear corporation that specializes in steel-toed leather boots that tend to rip. Our […]
Prose
13. Sometimes this city felt like the movie Blade Runner and sometimes it felt like a miracle. The […]
Minato Sketches by Sharon White
1. Mannequins in department stores — as a little boy he was afraid of them, yet strangely drawn […]
Old King Cole by Brian J. Buchanan
July 26 I checked into the Mariott Residence Inn two days ago. I went outside around 9:00 pm […]
That Summer in Yonkers by Lillian Slugocki
My boss, a great food chemist and inventor of tastes like Keurig’s Hot Apple Cider, had recently retired. […]
Spaghetti Man by Sam Schieren
They came in on the Zodiacs with the Armorflate up. For the first two thousand meters the outboards […]
Muslim Sea Burial by Andrew Rose
Heather works at the mental institution and when she walks into a patient’s room with feces on the […]
Risk by Laurie Lindop
Since I am the son of a chemist (my family regularly used beakers as juice glasses, pipettes as […]
T. S. Eliot’s Lab Partner by Leonard Kress
Summer 1987, and my parents are homeowners. On Cumberland Parkway in Des Plaines. A Cape Cod with baby-blue […]
The Flood by Jeffrey Wolf
My son and I sat on a ledge above a tiny alpine lake, […]
The Little Gray Bird by Marte Carlock
The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity. […]
ANTHRACITE: FRAGMENTS TOWARD A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST by William ...
in memory of the infamous Korean novelist, poet, and painter, Hailji (Rim Jong Joo) When I first […]