Category: 2018 issues

Strings by Linda Broder

I try not to sound crazy when friends ask me how I am. I’m doing okay, I say. Really. I’m learning to play the harp…

…his snippy “No” validates his teenage indignation. He looks back to his game. “Hold on guys,” he radios into the mic. “It’s my dad.”

After all that measured breath and surge, the hours of nothing, then something, then more terrible pause….

Carving a narrow vein of lifeblood across the dry earth, the Mumbi is a clear, swift-moving stream….

Fabric scraps, discarded tools, and drifts of white shopping bags cover the floor, their contents already forgotten.

There’s a large bonfire. I have no idea what they are burning. If my cousin is involved, evidence is a safe bet.

I would graduate in a few months. I was supposed to be joyous. Yet I was not.

Effective storytellers know there’s more to a day’s work than writing a through-line from Point A—inciting incident—to Point B—resolution.

Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…

Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.

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