Tag: theme issue

A Moon Story by Sarah Cedeno

moon-crescent

There is an earthquake in Japan, and I hold my hands on my belly that seizes with the rumble of patting feet. The news warns of tsunami waves as close as California or Hawaii and as far as Japan.

Tornado by Feagin Jones

tornado funnel over sunset

We lived in the black-veined mountains, because my father was a coal-mining engineer. Where my father and I saw comfort, my mother saw dilapidated houses, smeared on the sides of hills.