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ecide if she should write or not write to him read more suburban eclogue by brian simoneau walk with me down the block notice the rows of maples perfectly straight evenly spaced from the road read more four poems by dorianne laux under the blown out stars sounds the lone horn of the cucaracha car read more three poems by kevin bertolero two feet in the kennebec slipping on little granite stones for hours smooth geology read more sky ladder cow lantern lake flowers heaven by shane jones from the forthcoming novel young forest the hotel pdc was found online for two hundred dollars off the original price melanie had celebrated with half a beer and then immediately felt guilty because she imagined the alcohol infusing with her breast milk and brain damaging julian read more medication by eric buechel this mindy was mending a rip in her pants with a spool of cinnamon dental floss you could see the criss cross pattern of red where she d already gone over it looked sturdy enough she sat next to an old pitbull with markings on it like a brown and white spotted cow it wagged its tail a little when we got close otherwise it looked nailed down to the cardboard too exhausted to attempt a sniff at our pant legs read more three poems by peter markus the days pile up one on top of the other until we are standing on top of a mountain looking out at a sky with no sun or moon not even the stars ask who we are read more my mother caught on fire by marston hefner charles garjian pa german toy bird that was when as i lay on the ground losing blood the once thought to be cat but now understood to be dangerous and timid child rushed in from god knows where to steal whatever was within reach read more living with molly by sam fishman right now you re sitting on the bed we made together you re lying under the mustard linen sheets we slept on and you re just like these linen sheets because you re one more nice thing i ve never had before read more three poems by elizabeth ellen i felt dead inside all the time unless i was looking at machine gun kelly online and then i felt alive alive in the way that makes you want to get a bunch of tattoos i mean read more three days from the weird years by ryan ridge and mel bosworth i spied them through the peephole and thought okay let s have some fun one second i said and then i went out the back door and circled to the front i took my phone from my back pocket and began an imaginary conversation a loud one yeah so what i said what does that mean to me i don t care about any moose well this isn t a normal situation read more breadcrumbs to home by michele zimmerman at her daughter s third birthday party jenn swears she can smell her father s cologne on her hands but jenn s father is long gone and jenn doesn t wear cologne she avoids looking at her wife who she knows is watching and cuts a thick slice of cake with pink frosting read more cheap night by garielle lutz she spoke of little shares of chocolate she had once arranged and rearranged until they were practically mush and had to be licked off her fingers by more than just one lonesome mouth but her boyfriend was nowhere to be found she d had to recruit a girl she knew from the public pool who kept perfecting more and more ways of looking marooned read more continue to live by oliver zarandi it was a safe motel and as we drove up two men came out with their masks on and asked us to get out of the car they waved guns at us and said it was all procedure nothing to worry about i loved it read more the house by guillermo stitch he would have liked a moment to steel himself before pressing the bell to gird himself for this potentially life changing encounter these people could push you around if you let them read more durée by christopher kang a friend admitted to me one day that i was his best friend and i not knowing what to say replied thank you years later i still linger on that reply irked by the excessive accuracy of it read more ideation by elle nash the girlfriend s mother asked are you a hot topic girl she shook her head and flicked a clear blue lighter beneath a cigarette and the girlfriend s mother asked are you a witch read more some manors by tom laplaige longing is a thing that rots without containers and lids even the cats are driven mad by its presence read more in a sentimental mood by vanessa stone she climbed down his lengthy pole of a body twisted and pushed him to the ground she stared at him until he sprung up like spring flowers she lifted her leg pointed her feet and twirled like a dress read more three stories by ashley mayne that airless gasp the pained sheen of his eye a shudder in her brain a hard dark star read more the rat man by babak lakghomi the man who d turned into a rat had the same sickness ali says you have the sickness if you dream of boys and want to press against them this is something ali has heard from the kids on the street read more tawny lincoln michel these filthy animals olivia looked at me with her lip curled all the way up to the nose can you believe it disgusting olivia wasn t talking about the dogs read more ringer glen pourciau he continued to address me mostly in german and i understood nothing of what he said except words i d learned from world war ii movies he didn t care at all that i could not understand him and i had an inkling he may have preferred it that way read more uh oh love comes to town rjc smith we were on the roof smoking pot rena had a pair of binoculars it was the last summer or any season for that matter that i would spend with my father the last before his unfortunate break read more four stories raegan bird when jean was young he rescued a magpie from a fallen nest he kept it by a pot of warm water for a few nights and it did just fine he called it marguerite read more frugality by mark halliday i who am apt to get tearful about any instance fictional or real of loyal love that defies time read more mermaid by gregory spatz there were grooves or indentations of some kind in the gel foam of the gaff underwear to accommodate avram s testicles to help push them back into the sockets that would be my ovaries if i had any he said helpfully by way of instruction as he pressed and wiggled the idea being total erasure pull the junk in tuck it back make it vanish read more to dm a by jon lindsey most men would have walked away thrown down the garden hose run but you ve got to remember i put up a fight i didn t quit even as the house we built caught fire read more psychic cartography by basie allen lined in palm smear ghost breath i stood potiently in a toe willing july read more two against one by allie rowbottom george is the man lee and i made up to keep from hating dad if we re out of bed when he comes home late and wasted and mean if we re messing in the wrong drawers if we re asking the wrong questions we can afford to hate george read more display by nathan dragon he talks to himself while pushing the cart about what it s like to be a proud hunter or better more like a predator what a predator would do with its prey and lay it out like an offering to a mate to be the type of provider he is just look it read more poker by trevor creighton limbs had been taken and explored and this had been developed into attempting to figure out how to reattach them and have them heal with the goal of eventually switching the children s heads read more french antarctica by joanna novak i do not need much so i have brought very little i am on the open water yet snug in the cell of my vessel two openings one for me one for my valise my antiscurbatics my earthly affects read more two poems by lauren hilger i believe in the game and win the tamagotchi in my hand it has a pulse or a beat sort of alive r ead more other moons max halper i went to rehab with a guy named mitch who had swastikas tattooed on his hands and neck this was in mississippi about an hour outside jackson mitch was a meth addict and is dead now as far as i understand read more recommendations claudia dey s heartbreaker emily carr lately i ve been asking writers i respect if they ve read anything in the last year that they think everyone should read a book that given our limited amount of time on this planet simply must be read regardless of whether everyone s going to like it learn from it etc i ve been asking this question partly because i have an answer claudia dey s heartbreaker a novel which broke my heart open in all the right ways read more fiction drought by jensen beach her great uncle gerald had died amy just finished reading an email that contained a scanned photograph of his obituary clipped by her aunt mary margaret from the miami herald the obituary did not indicate cause of death but amy knew that he d had some heart trouble recently read more from the archives césar aira s an episode in the life of a landscape painter by alena graedon from post road 30 we ve grown a lush affection for the language of transformation but how many things really imprint our existence a handful of calamities a few great loves if we re very lucky sometimes a work of art knocks us on our backs and drags us through the dust so that we arise as different selves read more issue 20 golden state by emma cline if there was a landscape that was more blessed none of us knew it we grew up with the sun generous and round in a blue sky with fields and fields of dry grass we knew from childhood the lines of the coast angled against the vast and shifting pacific the arc and swell the rocky cliffs we learned how the cows moved in the evenings the way the creeks ran like veins across the hills how the vast and startling sunsets appeared biblical in their breadth and scope we felt subtle changes of weather the disruptions of patterns and habits and studied the quail that made their daily migration to the oak trees behind our houses where they settled in low for the night squawking and chittering to each other in the growing darkness read more issue 29 two poems by michelle holley to sing this tale i should be blind like lemon or willie johnson singing in the dark of love and loss just like old joe reynolds or reverend gary davis blind at three weeks blind before he could see read more issue 25 red owl by brandon hobson i live in a small town called red owl where the mayor likes to get avocado facials from fulton road which runs north into town some mornings you can see him sitting on his front porch thumbing through the newspaper his face caked in green most evenings he sits wearing his monogrammed slippers sipping polish vodka and listening to the smooth jazz fm station before bed he steps outside and waves a flashlight to check for trespassers ever since a group of teenagers from crawford destroyed his mailbox with a baseball bat he s been paranoid he s a man who s afraid of everything including cities life is too fast paced he tells me i like quiet places red owl is a quiet place read more issue 19 two poems by ravi shankar and the promontory sacrum cliffs lashed by the waves land s end europe howling wind arrhythmic nets pulled in by fishermen sharing half a bottle of wine between them raindrops the size of olive pits plinking the clay rooftops mi amor minarets of the monastery an architectural oxymoron not based on any gentility principle that can be parsed in storm dolmens jutting from clay granite eggs crosshatched with scored letters in an ancient language druidic the dialogical quality of history in conversation the rhythm of faint lines due in large part to the size of the cahiers bowls of fish soup and fado guitar overflowing the cobblestone lurching streetcars in parallel fifths far from the anglican belts of hymnal an irreducible secret unspun wool moorish palimpsest beneath erasures of spaniards catholic dub the anti theatricality of the domestic arcane presiding over the gnarled cityscape the one and only begotten son whosoever believeth in him shall not perish a middling fish peeled from hook by handkerchief and from the boat s bottom a checkerboard pattern palpitating like a heart the fishermen rowing back to shore dragging with them a wet heat in their wine stained clothes heavy with salt read more issue 32 dummies by greg ames when she was eleven years old my older sister cassie carried a ventriloquist s dummy with her wherever she went the dummy s name was marilyn and at first nobody had the heart to tell cassie that marilyn was not really a dummy but a charred log from our fireplace every night cassie slept in her narrow bed with this splintered wedge of burnt wood she cuddled with it on the sofa while watching soap operas and sitcoms and she left ashy smudges on everything she touched from the refrigerator door to her once white gerbils cassie s homeroom teacher was concerned the school psychologist nancy palermo asked my father if we had recently lost any family members to a house blaze or fiery car crash anything like that my father said not exactly ms palermo wanted to see cassie three times a week after school for private consultations read more issue 28 the girl i hate by mona awad so i m eating scones with the girl i hate the scones are her idea she says eating one of them is like getting fucked not vanilla style either the kind with whips she s eating the scones and i m watching sipping black tea with milk but no sugar actually she hasn t quite started yet she s still spreading clotted cream on each half of the split scone then homemade jam on top of that as she does this she warns me she might make groaning noises just so you know i know that s fine i shrug feeling little bits of me catch fire i ve got the teacup in my hand my finger crooked in the little handle that s too small for it so the circulation s getting cut off i watch her bite into the scone with her little bunny teeth i watch gobs of clotted cream catch in either corner of her lip she tilts her head back closes her eyes starts to make what must be the groaning noises i pour myself more tea and cup it in both hands like it s warming them even though it s gone cold then i pretend to look out the window at the dismal view of the grassmarket i say busy in the office this morning and try not to think cunt read more issue 18 nine inches by tom perrotta read moethan didn t want to go to the middle school dance but the vice principal twisted his arm he said it was like jury duty the system only made sense if everybody stepped up and nobody got special treatment besides he added you might as well do it now get it over with before the new baby comes and things get even crazier ethan saw the logic in this but it didn t make him feel any less guilty about leaving the house on friday evening with the dishes unwashed and fiona just getting started on her nightly meltdown apparently her busy toddler day wasn t complete unless she spent an hour or two shrieking her head off before bedtime read more issue 21 chili 4 way by michael martone when you were in college at butler you woul...