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Stories

Nonfiction
If you let me live, I will buy you beer whenever I see you in town.
Winter Contest Winners
He will be unable to resist his manias for symmetry and completion.
Fiction
At a red light he touches his cheek. The stubbly skin is sensitive, febrile.
Photography & Art
A stunning collection from fourteen emerging photographers.
Fiction
I found myself alone on the train in possession only of Knoll’s journal.
Poetry
Flies at our dinner—Won’t eat much sings the tiny ghost of my mother.
Poem of the Week
Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.
Winter Contest Winners
No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.
Poem of the Week
Forgive my father, the promise that he made, that I could turn all this to gold.
Poetry
Strange then, strange now, that language wants to be alone with me.
Poem of the Week
Men like me and my brothers filmed what we planted for proof we existed.
Story of the Week
“I—I am Martin Eden,” Martin began. (“And I want my five dollars.")
Narrative Outloud
An excerpt of The Transit of Venus, read by actor Juliet Stevenson.
Story of the Week
We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.
Poem of the Week
It is right that tears fall for something small and forgotten. And I would never scold the onion for causing tears.
Story of the Week
Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
First & Second Looks
Trees had been old men with beards when the woods were still whips.
Poetry
Little footage, this plot, where it thrived at first, then ghosted away.
Poetry Contest Winners
To deny love can’t undo the feeling of it.
Poetry
When the snake attacked the soldier, its fangs left a violent opening.
First & Second Looks
The world I was bred for is gone, and all the players in it are also gone.
Poem of the Week
I try to imagine him wanting only a Toblerone bar for his birthday.
Classics
No one’s alone. Men kill for this, or for as much. And what of the dead?
Six-Word Stories
Gary Sturm
Nonfiction
These adventures taught me that writers are flawed human beings.
iPoems
Those under us are not dead. They are dancers. We are the music.
Poem of the Week
Never mind the gossip of the world. Don’t have it, yet have it!