Eastern Parkway by Ed Doerr June 1, 2017 For a while after it happened, I would snap awake at night, clawing my stomach to staunch the blood I had dreamed was spurting out of me. Read the full story →
Forever Blonde by Brenna Womer June 1, 2017 We were together for a summer, the first one he’d ever spent away from his two little girls who were downstate with their mother… Read the full story →
Anticipation by Geoff Watkinson June 1, 2017 A young woman sits up in bed. She’s 25-years-old, 5’1”, tan, sericeous blonde hair—brown at the roots. You’re 25-years-old, too, both naked. Read the full story →
Smoking or Non by Eben S. Schwartz June 1, 2017 … I am stranded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The system of highways and buses that brought me here has shut down after a storm draped everything in an inch of snow. Read the full story →
You Look Like Your Daddy by Anjali Enjeti May 1, 2017 The metal bars on the merry-go-round heat like curling irons. I sit criss-crossed at its center, the pupil of an eye. Read the full story →
Wandering by Deb Hemley May 1, 2017 ..he told me about an upcoming exhibit of Ansel Adam’s photographs. “If you’ve never seen them in person,” he said, “ you should come. It’ll be fun.” Read the full story →
Naked Ladies and Cicadas by Joanna Brichetto May 1, 2017 For twenty-three Nashville summers they’ve surprised us in the front yard: pink megaphones on a stick. Read the full story →
A Cloud the Shape of Kentucky by Ryan Kauffman May 1, 2017 …he played poker and I tried to understand why an Ace, a card with no face on it, was considered superior to the King. Read the full story →
I Take It Back by Warren Merkel April 1, 2017 We make eye contact. What looks like raw fear is slicked across your face. I want to say, It’s okay, I won’t hurt you… Read the full story →
Scissors by Jane Marcellus April 1, 2017 My mother called her brother’s scissors “the scissors” because they were the only ones we had. Read the full story →