The red-phase eft, in its land-based incarnation, dangled by its forelegs in a small, messy cobweb off […]
Prose
The day I found out I was losing my father, I swore I was done with pretty […]
Sorrow by Kim Henderson
Editor’s Honorable Mention, TQ2 Prose Open . You can read “Down at the Crossroads: On Julie Marie Wade’s […]
Prose & Cons: Considerations of a Woman with Two Genres* ...
Open Letter to Marshall Berman (1940-2013) By Eric Darton MARSHALL BERMAN Spirit only becomes […]
Twin Eulogies: Marshall Berman (by Eric Darton) and Tato Laviera ...
TQ2 Prose Open Runner-Up is an impetuous mess, such unacknowledged need—no wonder no one can look […]
The Unreliable Patient by Andrea Witzke Slot
Read “Jesus’ Son (B.E. Hopkins on Chelsea Werner-Jatzke’s ‘Sweet Nothing: A Manifesto’)” here. The Four Prophets […]
Sweet Nothing: A Manifesto by Chelsea Werner- Jatzke
In and out of morphine dreams, he flies through the unfinished roof of Illinois sky. Below, matchbox-sized […]
My Uncle’s Last Day in Hospice by Jodi Barnes
Read Bronwyn Mills’ “Synaesthesia and Laurie Saurborn Young’s ‘Appearance of the Deer Woman: Diptychs’ here. I. […]
Appearance of the Deer Woman: Diptychs by Laurie Saurborn Young
“If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you […]
A THOUSAND YEARS OF UNSPOKEN LIFE by John Richards
TQ2 Prose Open Winner The water park was his idea and, if Lisa knew one thing […]
Laps by JoAnna Novak
A Metaphorical Explanation of Roland Barthes’ Principal Propositions for Distinguishing “From Work to Text,” in his […]
Horse Sense by Amy Wright
Today there’s a generic name for what we see a molten green or […]