" 'Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome' by The Mountain Goats" by C. M. Green
I mostly just want to talk about this one Mountain Goats song. It came out pretty recently, but I’ve listened to it a hundred times...
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- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
“Memory Lanes” by James Callan
Bowling is like anything else; when you get a little drunk you become much better at it. The rule of thumb is you go with a bowling ball...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
“Questions on the Reading” by Kate Deimling
1) Discuss the theme of butterflies. What do they represent? 2) What does this story tell us about the role soup/gender/usury plays in...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 3 min
“Small Town Life in the News" by Nolcha Fox
*** Illegal Activity on Mayberry Street Last Tuesday, Mrs. Frobisher and her alleged lady friends broke up an illegal parade of wild...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
"Cancer" by Robert Allen
We saw each other at the grocery store – then a few hours later, at the same cafe. Riding the bus home, there she was again. She sat next...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
"In Walks a Van Gogh Salesman" by Francine Witte
In walks a Van Gogh salesman, and not the sunflower kind. “No starry nights neither,” he winks at Jen and me as we sit there. Like...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 3 min
"Suburban Horticulture" by Nina Miller
It was no surprise to Dharti that the pedicure would go awry. Being made of solid earth created a habit of clogging drains. Ankle deep in...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
"No one cares at the fairground" by Marie-Louise McGuinness
It will be dead soon. Poached slowly in sun warmed plastic, steam droplets suspended inches above the waterline, like chandelier pendants...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 2 min
"Measuring the Density of Air" by Denise Bayes
“The air’s so thick tonight.” The taxi driver shouts, head twisted towards her, turning the steering wheel with one hand, veering out...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
“Baptized” by Dan Crawley
Elijah is next to climb into the baptistry tank, the kind of tank you would see at a carnival that dunks your obnoxious sister, or dorky...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 2 min
"Fries" by C.E. Hoffman
We’re stuck in the drive-thru screaming at each other. Your window’s down ready to order while I fail to hide my wet-sob face from the...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
"Rage" by Lorraine Murphy
It wasn’t the venom he spit through his contorted lips that shocked me the most. No, it was the speed at which it all happened. At first,...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
“Small Things” by Maria Thomas
“Help me Jesus” Lone whispers from the outhouse where he hides amongst the doodlebugs, the cobwebs and the glucose tracks of slugs. He...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
“Embers and Ashes” by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
She had a Nose; it was her inherited gift, her genetic curse; scents made their way through her nostrils, to her palate, tongue, throat....
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
"Pre-Teen Pyromaniac" by Chester Holden
My older brother and I were brought up in constant intoxication-fueled chaos. And as siblings with traumatic upbringings often do, we...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
“A Ball Rolls Down a Hill" by Gary Duehr
Don't write a story about a ball rolling down a hill. —Workshop adage A ball that is my life is rolling down a hill. The hill, I suppose,...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
"The Choice to Stay or Go" by Molly Andrea-Ryan
The dragonflies were out in hundreds, flying erratically along invisible paths of sharp and surprising angles. She sat and watched them...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Sweet Tooth" by Samuel Edwards
Dinner was over, the plates were collected, and the waiter asked if we wanted to see the dessert menu. I couldn’t manage another bite,...
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
"The Lie I Wish I Told" by Margo Griffin
After the third interruption, I lost my train of thought again. “It must have been a lie,” my mother quipped. Why the hell would I lie...
- Oct 2, 2022
- 3 min
"Elevator Music" by Lauren Kardos
According to Yelp, most tourists depart the haunted hotel downtown in disappointment, but you’ve always been luckier than most. You...
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