One day, the scientists tell us, every star in the universe will burn out, the galaxies gradually blackening until the last light flares and falls.
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
FICTION
In That Time
By Richard Bausch
Hemingway took another drink of wine. “You should try this in the morning sometime. Like fuel for an engine.” He looked at me. “Isn’t that right, partner?”
FICTION
Talinda
By Chaya Bhuvaneswar
That was a year ago, before I became this wretched person. A woman sleeping with her best friend’s husband, a woman waiting to take over a life.
FICTION
White Houses
By Amy Bloom
We kept ourselves to ourselves, and mostly people thought of us whatever people think of middle-aged ladies and that’s all.
FICTION
FICTION
MASTER CLASS
FICTION
Let Him Go On, Mama
By Renée Branum
He was coming, bringing the storm with him, as if dragging it up from someplace downstream.
FICTION
Wanting
By Joyce Carol Oates
What appears to be chance is just obscurity, perhaps. You don’t know the connections between things, as a fly blundering into a spider’s web.
MASTER CLASS
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
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
Grass Moon and Other Poems
By Matthew Dickman
I’m on my way to myself, that’s what all the people who want me to be alive keep saying.
POETRY
Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni
“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old woman proudly but the little girl didn’t want to
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
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
Iscariot and Other Poems
By Raven Leilani
Sun sweetened and assessed for juice, lye licked and pressed into a bruise, a black girl is a curious thing.
POETRY
Prank and Other Poems
By Matt W. Miller
The first period bell fell like a wreck in the rain as I left homeroom and saw two boys running with a nunchuck and chain.
POETRY
POETRY
NARRATIVE OUTLOUD
POETRY
Denaturalization: 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
Respectability and Other Poems
By Jerome Ellison Murphy
How long since one’s expression creased with hint of rebellion; conquest demands its cohesions.
NARRATIVE OUTLOUD
Crossing Borders
Javier Zamora in conversation with Carol Edgarian
That is the whole idea that I want to crack. We’re around you more than you want to credit us for.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Shirt
By Marianne Boruch
Shit. That particular word in chalk was the first gauntlet thrown down in a battle of dire consequence, a flare in the night sky.
NONFICTION
The Dress
By Dawn Davies
My daughter and I visited an upscale bridal shop. When we told the saleslady that my daughter was nineteen, she blinked but held her tongue.
NONFICTION
Bats
By Anton DiSclafani
They sleep all day. At night, they leave the attic. We never see them. They do good things for us, the bats. But we do not want them there.
iPOEMS
iPOEMS
iPOEMS
Erratica
By Willa Carroll
I will keep sending you a dozen dead horses until you accept my steepest pathologies.
iPOEMS
A Center
By Ha Jin
If others think you are insignificant, that’s because you haven’t held on long enough.
Cleave
By Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Our entire house could fit into this gap no father or grandfather could explain.
iSTORIES
iSTORIES
iSTORIES
iSTORIES
Callbacks
By Kate Erickson
The casting assistant dismissed us. As we left, the callbacks lined up to learn the choreography.
iSTORIES
The Matador and the Bull
By Karen Gentry
If, on your deathbed, you want to watch a lighthearted movie, don’t let me pick the film.
iSTORIES
The Getaway
By J. W. Gottlieb
Found a recipe for an instant vacation. Milliseconds to get there, and seconds to stay.
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
My First Boy
By Julie Diamond
That first boy was a friend, someone I liked as a friend, whom I never considered, even for a second, as more than a friend. His name was Paul.
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
Totality
By Jerry D. Mathes II
The moment between light and total solar eclipse was like the only breath you’d ever draw where everything became illuminated.
FALL CONTEST WINNERS
Izola
By Russell Working
I thought about her question. Well, I guess it’s true that nothing here in Slovenia has been as different as the differences I’ve seen elsewhere.
N30B WINNERS First Place
Second Place
Third Place
N30B WINNERS First Place
Rein
By Carlina Duan
one time, yeye died & I couldn’t get him back. could only watch the metal twitch, the jumper cables moan. I wanted to eat fish. I wanted a quick fix.
Second Place
Five and Other Poems
By Maria Martin
I am watching the light under the door for my parents’ feet. I am going to sleep. The chair at my desk turns into something you wouldn’t like.
Third Place
Lullaby
By Michelle Dominique Burk
Whistle of a train breaking from the floorboards, music of wet cement, sweet Black and Mild through a vent, and this is not the end, but it is almost the end.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-03
By Various Artists
Great new toons by Pat Byrnes, Brendan Loper, Drew Panckeri, Mick Stevens, and P. C. Vey.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-02
By Various Artists
New laughs from Pat Byrnes, Kaamran Hafeez, Mary Lawton, David Sipress, and Mick Stevens.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-01
By Various Artists
New art and humor from Bob Eckstein, Corey Pandolph, Ellis Rosen, Julia Suits, and P. C. Vey.
