STORY OF THE WEEK

Little Me

By Theodore Wheeler
They’d mentioned their travel plans during a party my parents had hosted a few weeks prior. I let myself in through an unlocked patio door.

POEM OF THE WEEK

Memorial Day

By Ted Kooser
For me it is always the vets of the Spanish-American War that I remember best, the last three or four still alive, phlegmy old men in ancient uniforms.

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.

POETRY

The Food Chain

By Raven Leilani
No. This word can refract around the shell of an ear into dual translation. This word in a woman’s mouth is spliced with mist.

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday

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

FICTION

Visible Empire

By Hannah Pittard
He was in love with his wife, but he was also in love with his mistress, a woman nearly two decades his junior, which he didn’t think was fair.

FICTION

The Emperor
of Shoes

By Spencer Wise
I got on the back of Ivy’s motorbike at the shoe factory like a lunatic who wants to get kidnapped, as my father would say.

NONFICTION

NONFICTION

MASTER CLASS

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.

MASTER CLASS

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

Elegy for Sammy

By Ralph Bousquet
I prefer to remember something simple like finding you sitting cross-legged on my unfertilized crabgrass lawn at one o’clock in the morning.

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

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

Two Appeals

By Alexandria Hall
My love swims you, your shoulders like hard sails under the green curls. Doesn’t sink. Doesn’t stink at all. Small powder around the moon.

POETRY

Sweet Girl and
Other Poems

By Cate Lycurgus
tell me sweet girl, how to greet you—since my mamma doesn’t believe in you or in my ability to bear another being.

POETRY

Site Visits

By Rachel Mannheimer
She’s pursued by a knight—the man who loved her unrequitedly. He’ll slay her, then remove the heart and circumjacent parts and feed them to the dogs.

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.

iPOEMS

CARTOONS

CARTOONS

iPOEMS

Erratica

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

CARTOONS

Cartoon Art Volume 2018-05

By Various Artists
Great new toons by Pat Byrnes, Mary Lawton, Drew Panckeri, Mick Stevens, and P. C. Vey.

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.