When the news about Mr. Margolis broke my mother asked my father if he remembered him at temple […]
Prose
The man on the fence appeared out of nowhere one night. One night he wasn’t there, and the […]
The Man on the Fence by Joel Streicker
Introduction The current thinking is that we manifested them as a means of self-defense. Take, for example, […]
Dentata by Emily Rose Cole
When Michael calls wanting to know where I live, I tell him across the street from the gingerbread […]
Miracle Kids by Tanya Perkins
There’s nobody there, it just seemed so to me. — Anton Checkov George watches the two women cry […]
A Woman Named George by S. Brook Corfman
Kate Bolton Bonnici grew up in rural Alabama and holds degrees from Harvard University, New […]
On Emily Dickinson’s Gorgeous Nothings: Responses in Miniature by Kate ...
Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: a Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and was […]
an excerpt from Choke Box: a Fem-Noir: “Composition Axe” by ...
Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of ‘The Republic of Self’ a New Issue First […]
Some Girls Write a Fearless and Moral Inventory by Elizabeth ...
Jana Harris teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and at the Writer’s Workshop […]
from Blowing Smoke, a Compendium of Everyday Excuses: “The ...
Viviane Vives is a finalist of the Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry, semifinalist of […]
La Virgen de la Candela by Viviane Vives
Laurie Blauner is the author of seven books of poetry and four novels. Her latest […]
from A Brief Catastrophe: “After” by Laurie Blauner
A star – sweetest beauty. Denied faith or body, it doesn’t know touch, doesn’t know patience. Born of […]