She knows I love the Amish—in the way one loves all things experienced theoretically and from the perspective of novelty: with casual abandon.
The Mint Farm by Liesl Nunns
Category: October 2014
Twice upon a Trip by Judy Whitehill Witt
“1831! Who wrote this, Aunt Ree? Where did you get it?” — “Nobody knows who wrote it. I rescued it during your grandmother’s attic clean-out…
Who Watches the Guáchiman? by Robert Isenberg
An older man with a boyish face will always grimace and nod. He won’t wave because his hands are always folded over his belt.
A Manual for Fire and Stories by Hannah Straton
Flames rejoice around the kindling, their elegantly dangerous silhouettes leaping from stick to log and back to stick again, bright against the dark of the night.
Together, in Orange by Joelle Berger
I hesitated to say it. I was only eleven, but everyone else, likewise entrenched in orange and black and equally pissed about the penalty, was chanting.
Bare by Jason Griffith
At home we give clean and comfortable nicknames. Bathroom. Restroom. We hide them away in caverns lit by Yankee candles.
Nine Things Said Over a Hospital Bed by Jessica Allen
Seconds before my father collapsed from cardiac arrest, he pointed out a rabbit to his granddaughter.
The View From the Moon by Susan Kieffer
A projector screen lit up in the front of the cavernous room, and the teacher told us to pay attention. There was a white tower in the center of the screen. An announcer’s voice droned, counting down by seconds.
Secrets of the Suddenly Single by Joanne M. Lozar Glenn
Grocery stores are problematic. Butchers shrink wrap pairs of salmon steaks, slap on gold foil labels that say “Dinner for Two.”
Guts by Mark Sullivan
It was chaos. Mice frantically burrowed in the corners for a way out; their tiny claws worn raw.
