Contest: The Day’s Foremost Hour

/ Drew Dickerson / Fiction
Sweaty fingers worked away at a wiry beard, the man’s nose defying powder and shining […]

Their Eyes Are So Close

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The world is falling apart fast, making happiness something very complicated.

Why don’t you just…

/ Tara Campbell / Satire
  All this unrest! Can’t we all just get along? Can’t we just forgive and […]

Poems: Michelle Betters

Sleep Walking

/ Mark Plummer / Fiction
Colette is ready to leave when I go into the kitchen for breakfast. She’s in […]

By The River Nile

/ Brooke R. Calder / Misc
I discovered that Marius had not only authored a number of historical fiction reads, but was also retired romance writer Madeleine Ker.

Poems: Stephen S. Mills

/ Stephen S. Mills / Poetry
'So many bodies that come / and go through the years— / stories we forget to write down— / lost in the mattress.'

Contest: Faker

/ Amanda Marbais / Fiction
Zoe stretched across the backseat, pressing her feet into my thigh, hair plastered to the […]

Mary Plaid Lincoln

Contest: Wire Nuts

/ Nancy Devine / Fiction
You’d think the first annual Worldwide Women’s Wiring Festival would happen in Winnipeg, Wichita, Winnemucca, […]

One Child

/ Michelle Olmsted / Misc
There are some fairly safe subjects to discuss while on an hour-long car ride, alone, with your future mother-in-law.

Dear Poetry Editor

Contest: Navaja

/ Francisco McCurry / Fiction
Manny slammed the front door. He ran down the rusted iron stairs with the fourteen […]

Space Routine

/ Christopher Hagel / Satire
  A lot of people who’ve been to space tell you it’s easy. Float around. […]