STORY OF THE WEEK

STORY OF THE WEEK

Hunters By Ola Szczecinska

Hunters

By Ola Szczecinska
I imagine the hunt—visions of truth, revelations, forgiveness. A sudden, radical acceptance of the way things are: all the pain, the cruelty.

POEM OF THE WEEK

POEM OF THE WEEK

Self-Portrait as Boo Radley By Harrison Hamm

Self-Portrait as Boo Radley

By Harrison Hamm
When I was no longer welcome in church, I was welcome to my solitude. To question religion in a big empty house, haunted by bigger emptier questions.

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

POETRY

Sweeter By Yong-Yu Huang

Sweeter

By Yong-Yu Huang
This is what passes for dreaming in the blue house, the decay of my good days. Again, the bowl of fruit awash in the creeping light.

POETRY

POETRY

Illicit By Cate Lycurgus

Illicit

By Cate Lycurgus
touching you is a dash in the paragraph of not touching you fragment in the sentence of not seeing you seeing you is a colon amid clauses of not seeing

FICTION

GRAPHIC STORIES

FICTION

FICTION

The Red Shoes By Lavanya Vasudevan

The Red Shoes

By Lavanya Vasudevan
At her nalangu, the girl would not sit quietly on the wooden plank and let us paint her feet with turmeric. She put on her strange red shoes.

GRAPHIC STORIES

GRAPHIC STORIES

Some Things I Actually Would Like to Elevate . . . By Tracey K. Berglund

Some Things I Actually Would Like to Elevate . . .

By Tracey K. Berglund
Women are constantly encouraged to “Elevate” our careers, our lifestyles, our portfolios, our skin care regimens, our get-aways.