STORY OF THE WEEK

Carolina Hall Girls

By Lina Patton
I’ve noticed that all of Tallen has a ranking scale. It sounds cliché, that the prettier or richer or more drunk and fun you are, the higher on top you are.

POEM OF THE WEEK

Firefighters’ Visit Leads to Fire

By Eddie Kim
Papers are thrown about and sail in slow motion, like kites at Gas Works Park, toward ignition as the two and crowbar flee.

OPEN TO ALL WRITERS

We’re looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, and excerpts from long fiction and nonfiction.

Please see the Guidelines.

NONFICTION

Jerusalem According to Cats

By Josip Novakovich
The domestic cat is not mentioned in the Bible. So I assumed Israel would be divided along yet another line: dogs in Jerusalem, cats in Ramallah.

FICTION

NONFICTION

NONFICTION

FICTION

The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday

By David Corbett
Men can always produce attractive arguments to justify disgraceful actions.

NONFICTION

Out of Body

By Lynn Ahrens
Many of my friends are open to the possibilities of paranormal phenomena. I wonder if they too are hedging their bets.

NONFICTION

Kickflip

By Neal Thompson
I wanted to take a few weeks to immerse myself in the sport and culture that had come to dominate our family.

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

Homeland

By Mehul Bhagat
She cuts both ways—how she can mean both love & freedom with the same hand. I know also what it means to be born in one life and meant for another.

POETRY

To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All

By Christopher Citro
I love scientists. They’re trying their hardest. And they just want love.

POETRY

The Mercy
of Pronouns

By Kimberly Grey
The large difficulty of mercy is that it’s full of people moving and sometimes you are not one of them.

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

Cavitation

By Maggie Millner
Come hear me talk! Advance in age beside me and this pine! Is yours, like mine, the edgeless kind of soft? The grafted grin, the vinegary light?

POETRY

An Elegy for Mr. Vaishno Das Bagai, an American

By Faisal Mohyuddin
One day her husband’s blood would mount the most vicious testimony against him.

POETRY

Aubade with
Hold Music

By Elizabeth Morton
We stood about, like white teeth, watching the morning split hairs in the shattered glass. Every other boy was listening to hold music.

MASTER CLASS

iPOEMS

CARTOONS

MASTER CLASS

iPOEMS

Erratica

By Willa Carroll
I will keep sending you a dozen dead horses until you accept my steepest pathologies.

CARTOONS

Cartoon Art Volume 2018-04

By Various Artists
New art and humor from Pat Byrnes, Bob Eckstein, Kaamran Hafeez, Mick Stevens, and Julia Suits.