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October 31, 2018 | Nonfiction

To The Princesses I've Broken

Chelsea Sheneman

From The Happiest Place On Earth

October 30, 2018 |

The Cure. 

Lauren Grabowski

It took a month of working together for Luke to start talking to me.

October 30, 2018 | Poetry

spell for electron microscopes

Maya Jewell Zeller

spell for electron microscopes/ for silicate minerals & landfills

 

if my friends say you are a cell tower & I am a bird

 

if when I say I dream of archaeology what I mean is you

October 29, 2018 | Nonfiction

Touching Strangers

Tamara Adelman

The door is open, I said, just come in.

October 29, 2018 | Fiction

Doors

Zac Smith

Susan bought a gun that shot doors into things. The doors were small and led to incredible places.

October 26, 2018 | Nonfiction

After the Call about My Dad’s House Burning Down

Guy Choate

Liz and I sit up with a start.

October 26, 2018 | Poetry

Driving Through Colorado, Listening to the Radio, Thinking of My Father Again

Sophie Klahr

Well look, the radio says ... 

October 26, 2018 | Nonfiction

My Mother Left Me

Anastasia Selby

An envelope with my name on it, xoxo.

October 25, 2018 | Fiction

We Get Pregnant

Diana Clarke

We receive phone calls inviting us to the ocean, (a beach day!) but of course we can no longer fit in the sea. We are too big for open waters.

October 24, 2018 | Nonfiction

Autopsy

Whitney Lee

We met in the pathology suite ––me the medical student––you the corpse.

October 23, 2018 | Nonfiction

Abigail

Ryan Kim

We had a crab dinner at my uncle’s that night.

October 23, 2018 |

Automatic For The People

Andrew M. Howard

I’ve bought more used Automatic for the People CDs than I can count.

October 22, 2018 | Poetry

Four poems

Lauren Stroh

TO LOUISIANA

I cry because of
how much time
we lost of my childhood
not singing in the front seat
of the white truck yelling
swing low
sweet chariot
coming forth
to carry me

October 22, 2018 | Fiction

Construction of a Last Ditch Garden

Devan Collins Del Conte

One day, recognize your malformed loneliness like a tumor in your throat.

October 19, 2018 | Nonfiction

Notes On Scarring

Jonathan Gleason

The first thing I realized was that my legs weren’t broken.

October 19, 2018 | Fiction

For A Small Donation This Woven Basket Can Be Yours

Jared Shaffer

Welcome. Please don’t take my talking as an assault to your personhood. 

October 18, 2018 | Fiction

It's Just A Flower

Olivia Gunning

“We need a gift that’s really her,” I said. “Really Sophia.”

“Could you define her?”

“A truly independent mind, a renovator, a cultivator.”

October 18, 2018 | Poetry

Three Poems

Erika Walsh

Treat

I want to be rewarded for my good thoughts. My good purchase. I want free shipping. Gentle handling. I buy eyeliner. The felt tip, and pointed. I want someone to clap. I buy steel boots. I

October 17, 2018 | Nonfiction

The Day Morgan Freeman Nearly Crashed Into Our House

Sarah E. Ruhlen

I flipped on the lights, turned up the furnace, and cranked some Stevie Wonder.

October 16, 2018 | Poetry

three poems

Isaac Ginsberg Miller

Cosmogony

In January the birds awakened mid-
flight. In February the bats left
their cave and we called it abandoned.
In March a civilization arose
and fell. In April a ream of gauze
unfurled,

October 16, 2018 | Fiction

Orangeville

William Squirrell

Since they had moved to Orangeville, Trudy found she could no longer distinguish Kevin from other men.

October 15, 2018 | Fiction

The Collapse of Bee Colonies

Meg Pokrass

On the morning of my sixteenth birthday I made a list of stuff I didn't believe in anymore.

October 12, 2018 | Fiction

Silence Is Its Own Reward

Greg Welch

“It was misery, real misery. But, Doc keeps telling me I’m all clear, so I ain’t going to argue with him.”

October 12, 2018 | Poetry

Five poems

Alyse Knorr

scare tactics

I grew hands by the dozen
I was a generalized reaching
clasping monster it was
not a dream shared or
otherwise it was neither
yours nor mine nor ours

the scariest

October 11, 2018 | Fiction

Advice to Someone Listening to Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days”

Mark Johnson

"What am I supposed to do?"

October 10, 2018 |

Hinterland Transmissions: SUMAC, Dälek and Infernal Coil

Steve Anwyll

And christ it's gonna be hot inside the tiny bar where SUMAC is playing tonight. I should've stayed home. Like I always do. An old man on his couch.

October 10, 2018 | Fiction

Public Comment

Lee Matalone

i know it’s not something you really need to hear—i’m just one of many fans—but can I just take the opportunity on this comments section to say, i really love how you brush your hair

October 9, 2018 |

Stay Gold

Kim Nelson

We fell asleep in our tent listening to coyote songs.

October 8, 2018 | Poetry

Three Poems 

Janice Majewski

air wants
to hold
flame down

October 5, 2018 | Interview

An Interview With Darrin Doyle

Mallory Brand

I don’t feel like I’m very good at writing a serious story with super realistic violence and human emotion. I feel like it has to be filtered through some kind of absurd or weird lens.