By Allison Grimaldi-Donahue

Purvs

/ Svetlana Kitto / Fiction
“Make sure it doesn’t stick,” Grandma says, instructing me from a little stool next to […]

Outside In

/ Hugo Dos Santos / Fiction
The buzzer opening the gate is an alarm clock releasing him from a hazy dream […]

On Lockdown

/ Nick Admussen / Fiction, Misc
The children were meek behind my makeshift barricade: an active shooter pushed his way in […]

DEGRADASHUN

/ Peter Milne Greiner / Fiction
“This is how you use a standard club,” I began, not grim, not sagely, but […]

Poetry Review: Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods

/ Michael Julian Arnett / Reviews
Reviewed: Yoel Hoffmann's Moods translated by Peter Cole Published by New Directions When I finished […]

Poem for Erin

If the Woodcutter Were a Junkie

/ Tyrese L. Coleman / Fiction
The house posed as a seductive woman: eyes—hollow black windows, the door—a plywood mouth opened […]

Essays Review: 25 points – THE ART OF FLIGHT

/ Connor Goodwin / Reviews
Reviewed: The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol Translated from the Spanish by George Henson […]

David Shields

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
My wife holds open the refrigerator. We’re out of David Shields, she says. I look […]

1997

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Fiction
Back when we had knees the colour of maroon crayons, one July evening I sat […]

Essays Review: Nein. A Manifesto

/ Tomoé Hill / Reviews
Reviewed: Nein. A Manifesto by Erik Jarosinski   Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom. Ambrose Bierce, The […]

Essays Review: 25 Points Savage Detectives

/ Connor Goodwin / Reviews
Reviewed: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño translated by Natasha Wimmer Picador, USA 2008   […]

Tropic of Tinder

/ Rhea DeRose-Weiss / Fiction
I didn’t immediately know he was a magician. He wasn’t wearing a cape or carrying […]

THE LAST SEERS

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
    One by one, the seers succumbed. Their necks and shoulders bulged. Their cheeks […]

Vacation with My Mother

/ Fawn Parker / Fiction
This is an excerpt from Parker's forthcoming collection, Looking Good and Having a Good Time, […]

A VISTA OF FOOTCANDLE

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
There are no postcards for sale in the vicinity of Footcandle, Massachusetts. This is not […]

Back to Reality

/ Simon Pinkerton / Fiction
When they let me out I cried tears of relief; wracking tears, too many for […]

Beelzebub Stole my Bicycle

/ Erich Brumback / Fiction
June sits outside of Arthur’s at three in the morning with a broomstick strapped to […]

Old Women and their Rolling Bags

/ Tasha Coryell / Fiction
She was knitting when it happened. She was nearly always knitting. She couldn’t focus unless […]

The Catastrophic Record

/ Ann Gelder / Fiction
Dr. Dennis Hartung, the renowned geologist, is covered head-to-toe in mud. He hacks away at […]

Fishing with Uncle Chocolate

/ Phedra Deonarine / Fiction
They called him Uncle Chocolate. The name started with family members and expanded to people […]

Catullus and Forgetting

The Dead Rabbits Society

/ Sam Slaughter / Fiction
Jake found the first one on our daily walk. I was supposed to take him […]

Things She Carried

/ Vanessa Willoughby / Fiction
  First she was born, but when she was older, sixteen and a chameleon, she […]

Bangkok Petey

/ Jimi McDonnell / Fiction
Sitting in the heat and swagger of Bangkok, it comes to him. He has been […]