"With apologies, from Furnace Creek" by Kirsti MacKenzie
Could you forgive me if I told you the air was warm as my skin, that there is no sound in the desert but your own shaking breath, that...
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- Jun 11
- 4 min
"Mimesis" by Noor Us Sabah Tauqeer
Jahanara stood sentry outside a place she had never visited. A place she had never had reason enough to visit. A bank. In her browned...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
"Road Trip" by Nolcha Fox & Barbara Leonhard
The moon is a vacancy sign, and I want to pull in for a rest. But the parking lot is full of stars, their headlights blinking through the...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"Fast Car" by Lisa Lerma Weber
Do you remember the time we were driving down Main Street in your dad's old blue Monte Carlo and "Fast Car" played on the radio? You said...
- Jun 11
- 2 min
"The Last Letter" by Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos
My Boy, When you read this letter, I will be dead. I’m sorry, but you need to let me go. If you don’t, I might start haunting people, and...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
"Back Into the Wild" by Cole Beauchamp
The first time we saw it, we were rowing under Barnes Bridge, cool shadows flooding our lungs with their mossy scent. Like the black...
- Jun 11
- 1 min
"Absorbed" by Katharine Coldiron
I fell asleep with my left hand resting on my phone, and when I woke up the phone had become part of me. My hand had grown around it, had...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
"The Very Bad People at a Sad Little School" by Candice M. Kelsey
There once was a husband and wife who had lived in a big city out West. They were a happy couple who enjoyed teaching high school...
- May 28
- 4 min
"Exchange Rates for City Babies and Border Girls" by Ra'Niqua Lee
Spring break meant a trip south of Atlanta to Georgia’s fat bottom. Ama’s grandparents lived in a house there with two bedrooms, a single...
- May 28
- 2 min
"If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India..." by Sumitra Singam
If Your Father Dies on Holiday in India and His Brother Whom You’ve Never Met Conducts His Funeral, Then Where For You Paining? CW:...
- May 13
- 4 min
"A Menu For Tomorrow" by Shome Dasgupta
Appetizers I remember your fingertips—your fingertips. I remember your fingertips during our first dinner, and how I was nervous, but...
- May 13
- 3 min
"Nothing to Lose" by Aimee Truchan
Don’t turn around. Throw your wallet behind you,” the raspy voice says. My breath escapes into the early morning air in the form of a...
- May 13
- 3 min
"All the departing souls" by Sandra Arnold
A flash of fantail wing, a clack of beak on glass. Elena watches the bird zip between the windows of her study and the kitchen. She...
- May 13
- 1 min
"If You Go Into the Woods Today" by Donna Vorreyer
The forest preserve rumbles with the deep-throated song of frogs, holed-up in fallen trees or testing the frigid indigo of the lake. The...
- Apr 30
- 3 min
"Flames" by Esther Byrne
From the diary of Cassandra Austen, sister of Jane Austen I have a choice, one which I fear may attract some consternation and regret....
- Apr 30
- 2 min
"Matinee" by Pedro Ponce
She liked doing it to music. It relaxed her, she said, helped her focus. “On what?” I asked. “The situation,” she said. The niche between...
- Apr 30
- 4 min
"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt
Hel is perched in the large bay window of Hemlock Tattoo Removal. Her serpentine tail curls around her, flicking in time with the sound...
- Apr 30
- 4 min
"Used Couches" by Joey Hedger
You find condom wrappers in the couch while we wait for the power to come back on. It is an old couch, covered in torn, brown faux...
- Apr 16
- 2 min
"Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda..." by Karen Walker
Lisle Donker (back row, second from the right) with daughters Anne, Freda, Dagmar, Maud, and grandchildren circa 1901 Long dresses still...
- Apr 16
- 4 min
"Third World Unbendable Man" by Jane Camoleze
My previous expectations regarding the hereafter were closer to worms than to bareass comrades. Amazingly enough, Death was not it, and...
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