Every girl who was any girl left school early that year to get her hair done […]
Prose Open Contest
2011 You are in Banff National Park, Canada. It is a day in summer, a day […]
On the Way by Diana Radovan
We flew to Montana for a wedding, ostensibly. A childhood friend of mine had been working […]
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Here comes Julian, rounding the bend from his bedroom to the hall, fresh from the hospital […]
Path of the Ground Birds by J.L. Cooper
Summer, 1952 I don’t remember clearly the coming or the going, the short walk at your side […]
My Father, the Swimmer by Bernard Horn
These are people of “(ironically) tiger-striped couch,” of “knowing how people got to be the people […]
The Incurable Habit: Jessamyn Smyth on Okla Elliott’s “The Boiling ...
The red-phase eft, in its land-based incarnation, dangled by its forelegs in a small, messy cobweb off […]
The Spider Web by Mary Shartle
TQ2 Prose Open Runner-Up I. Parry Sound, Canada The first morning: three otters on the dock: dark, […]
Nature: An Essay by Christine Marshall
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* ...
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 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
Read “Jesus’ Son (B.E. Hopkins on Chelsea Werner-Jatzke’s ‘Sweet Nothing: A Manifesto’)” here. The Four Prophets […]