Rectangular boatplanks plopped, nestled, and nailed by builders now decades dead, foot-perpendicular-by-foot-perpendicular, like the staves of the […] Ode to the Stairs by Andrea Witzke SlotJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Andrea Witzke Slot by Ryan Gunn
See it. I’ll force you. The baby’s head, dark and bloody, coming […] Baudelaire’s Sister at the Betty Ford by Deirdra McAfeeJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Deirdra McAfee by Ryan Gunn
I keep running into my dead father outside the Dunkin Donuts […] My Father the Doppelganger by Brian HestonJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Brian Heston by Ryan Gunn
2030 “Ladies and gentlemen, please!” Georgie likes me to pause here; […] The Amazing Furniture Ascender by Alexander LumansJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Alexander Lumans by Ryan Gunn
In the Dark As kids, we played mostly in basements. At our farmhouse. At our piano teacher’s […] Fields of Vision by Rachael PeckhamJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Rachael Peckham by Ryan Gunn
sea. waves. woman. (a tritina) At the edge of the water, someone waves, mirrors the movement of […] Words in Intercourse: waves. The Waves. woman (an elegy for ...July 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Julie Cooper-Fratrik by Ryan Gunn
Anne Sweigart sits in a Cleveland diner crowded with grim truckers […] Light Year by Edward HamlinJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Edward Hamlin by Ryan Gunn
planted a heel/ against his chest, wrenched the spear from his wound/ and the midriff came with […] Morgan: A Lyric by Boyer RickelJuly 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Boyer Rickel by Ryan Gunn
1. Dear President Romney, “For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and […] Please tell us why you are not Highly Satisfied (A ...July 14, 2014 in Prose / TQ4 Prose Open Contest tagged Jack Martin by Ryan Gunn