Browsing Category Fiction & Poetry

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  Poems

  Two Poems

  It was a surprise to discover my body, collapsed like a bridge, / but still beautiful, still wet with snow.

  By Catherine Pond
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  Fiction

  Postal Worker and Housewife

  “She bends to pick up the envelope, and something about the elongation of her right thigh makes Sarah Wheeler pause."

  By Nellie Hermann
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  Poems

  Two Poems

  Winter siphons this cigarette out / an attic window, and heat I don’t pay for follows / almost as an afterthought — sorry.

  By Andrew Dally
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  Fiction

  Skies

  "They tell me that I waited in another room with the babysitter until my father made it home to the body."

  By Laura Herbek
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  Poems

  In the memory of photos

  thn i remmbrd… i can nt remmber

  By Seldon Yuan
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  Fiction

  The Discarded

  "These Silicon Valley firms sometimes self-destruct, I am discovering, much like supernovae."

  By Linda Boroff
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  Poems

  Forest fire, supper time

  igniting // tinder in the ditch / you call worship

  By K.T. Billey
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  Fiction

  Tea

  "Feeling sorry's an ugly color no matter who's wearing it."

  By Scott Marengo
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  Poems

  Invocation

  The rental gear's here suss it / All out snare crack bass thunk / Pick squeal how does it feel / To be so far from home each

  By Harold Whit Williams
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  Fiction

  Hummers

  "That beak dips down onto my shirtsleeve, once, twice, three times. He’s drinking my shirt."

  By Amy Gottfried
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  Poems

  Two Poems

  A spider dangles from under the airless, / rusted green radiator. / When I swing my hand across it, its string // sticks to my skin. It looks at

  By Daniel Kraines
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  Fiction

  Ida Abandons Ship

  "Sometimes, the nice young man from that other TV show on the same cable network comes by."

  By Clara Chow