Stories
Story of the Week
People didn’t end marriages without warning, without second chances.
Story of the Week
“Your mom is awake,” I said. “You need to go in and see her.”
Poetry
Premonitions return to me like a carrier pigeon, disaster strapped to its leg.
Poem of the Week
My door overlooks a jade stream, the stillness of dawn drives cares away.
First & Second Looks
The girl repacked the tattered baggage of her personality.
Winter Contest Winners
To be married is to learn to love, captive in your own new country.
Story of the Week
They couldn’t go to the Manson family caves because of nuclear radiation.
Poem of the Week
Everything comes down to the lightning. Nothing is ever by chance.
Poem of the Week
It’s like listening to the snow falling before sticking out your tongue.
Fiction
Now all I was, all I had ever been, when it came down to it, was a tenant.
Fall Contest Winners
Overnight, somebody had dumped a dead pit bull in the trash bin.
Story of the Week
“This day should never end,” we said, though we knew it would.
Back at the ramshackle house, we were alone.
Story of the Week
“Tell me that everything will be okay,” I whispered to the photo.
Story of the Week
She weighed the cold shiny gun on her palm and let out a jagged breath.
Poetry
There is the ghost of a child in me. It longs to die, so afraid of living.
Poem of the Week
forget how to count starting with your own age starting with even numbers
Poetry
I was a skinhead in look and seem, a balding guy trying out the future.
Poem of the Week
You can dive still see half the Spanish castle, its stone pile a trap
Poem of the Week
we have in our heads the next place the place like the first place
Poem of the Week
The leaves repeat my fall in choruses more ancient than my own.
Photography & Art
The photo portraits express the unguarded essence of each author.
Poetry Contest Winners
I dream we ride together in a Subaru to the county fair.
Poetry
No one seems to long for what it was before memory gained purchase.
Readers' Narratives
I could find a partner with no more effort than ordering Chinese.
Story of the Week
I don’t know who he wants to be, and it’s not because I haven’t asked.
Six-Word Stories
An ironic story about skepticism and education, in just six words.
Poem of the Week
Buckled by time and tides, the pier fails halfway to the deeps.
