Leeches
The wind spoke in tongues, battering my sides, and the cold bog I stood in gulped. I squelched my legs deeper until the muddiness hit my...
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Jordon Briggs
- Mar 1
A Land of a Loss
A Land of a Loss At night, bells adorn a white gate to a patio--everything is in first person. No sound. No warning. She. Come out of the...
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John Duncan
- Nov 9, 2022
Of shipwrecks and serpents and Marilyn Monroe
There are no definitive reports as to what has happened. Some of the crew thinks it is the end of the world, others think the North has...
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Pamela McCarthy
- Oct 19, 2022
Light Falls
They stayed at a shabby motel called the Capeway Inn. It was one floor of weather-beaten cedar shingle, long and low slung, with a sign...
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Madeleine Voge
- Oct 7, 2022
The Visitor
I wasn’t expecting visitors, I’m sorry for the hair. You may not see it now, but I’m going to ask you to leave your shoes by the door....
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Tim Tomlinson
- Sep 29, 2022
Wall Meditations #1
You drop down the water column surrounded in blue, you float down, weightless as a leaf in a zephyr. At the seabed fifty feet below, you...
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Rosanne Dingli
- Sep 19, 2022
Bend in a Road Somewhere
Five dishes. Spread on the table, they gave the room a hospitable air, even though I did not feel like catering for the guests above. It...
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Laila Marouane Olivier
- Jun 22, 2022
Evelyn
It’s Wednesday and it’s 3:54 AM and I’m lying on my stomach on the fire escape of Damon’s West Village apartment. My head almost but...
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Alex Kudera
- Mar 22, 2022
An Old Friend Called
He spoke about what he eats. No processed or packaged food. Nothing in plastic or out of a box. Vegetables, fruits, bulbs, legumes—all...
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C.A. Demi
- Mar 14, 2022
Sightings
1. The name floated to him. “Randal McAlester.” Rather than summon, the sound of the voice conjured a brief vision of his mother....
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Aida Zilelian
- Mar 10, 2022
The Piano
It was only after the Manoukians moved in that I felt like my old self again. When they first visited me, I had no idea whether or not...
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Jamie Deiner
- Mar 2, 2022
Haunting Virus
Phoebe hates them with passion, and every day we see at least one in our temporary apartment that’s actually the garage at Uncle George’s...
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Shira Richman
- Feb 3, 2022
Post-Chastity
I wasn’t sure why Manoj singled me out to meet the American. From what I could tell, a perk of being the local superior was to exert his...
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