His wife had called everybody except the governor. He had a hard time explaining himself because he felt she wouldn’t understand.
POEM OF THE WEEK
POEM OF THE WEEK
Falling
By Pam Bernard
Who will chart my journey from where I once lay dreaming among the trees? Who will call out as I descend, the world blurring by in sleep and despair?
WINTER STORY CONTEST
WINTER STORY CONTEST
Our Winter Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works. See the Guidelines.
FROM THE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY
A Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
By Tomás Q. Morín
I must remain faithful to the customs and decorums of the elegy—an inborn fear of sex, a holy reverence for the cordless communiqué.
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Earth in the Time of Billie Holiday
By Canisia Lubrin
Combat commanded no serious loyalty from me or Siem, though it did have a first taste, a sound.
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Roanoke Rapids
By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Tchaikovsky can be real sad. And sometimes Tchaikovsky can be scary. But it’s never real scary. Things always turn out in the end.
FICTION
The Lucky Bastard
By N. Jane Kalu
Only now does Grace understand that for her mum, the 1993 election held so much promise that it caused hope to spread like a disease.
FICTION
FICTION
Rapture Basement
By Maud Newton
My mom didn’t want me to know that she was taking testosterone. And yet, one by one as the months went by, her confidants anxiously rang me up to make sure I knew.
NARRATIVE 10
NARRATIVE 10
NARRATIVE 10
NARRATIVE 10
Narrative 10
By Allegra Goodman
I just knew I had a calling. As an adult it’s good for me to remember what I knew as a child. Writing is more than a profession.
NARRATIVE 10
NARRATIVE 10
Narrative 10
By Tom Jenks
If a story succeeds, its words carry the reader home, back to life outside the story, having received gifts along the way.
FICTION
CARTOONS
FICTION
FICTION
Old Friends
By Tom Lakin
Wordlessly, in the way of birds suddenly ascending in unison at some invisible signal, we peeled away from our mothers and went scampering into the yard.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2025-01
By Various Artists
New laughs in which timing is everything, crime gets a glass half full, and sweet treats are terminated.
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