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Stories

Poetry
October Phone Call and Other Poems
by Madeleine Cravens
How many gods do you believe in? How many good men?
Poetry
Ode to Left-Handedness and Other Poems
by Gregory Orr
Fearing for them, I clustered them together, then cut them off.
Poetry
Ode to Nothing
by Gregory Orr
Nothing holds the universe together; nothing is the secret force.
Poem of the Week
Ode to Repetition
by Ellen Bass
She’s not the same, her body more naked in its aging, its disorder.
Poem of the Week
Ode to Sex
by Tyree Daye
my grandparents lay in a room listening to their legs rub together
Poetry
Ode to the Boot Scraper on the Stoop and Other Poems
by Austin Smith
Mostly, though, you could turn them in your hand, hold them to your nose.
Poem of the Week
Ode to the Hebrew Letter “Chet”
by Maya Pindyck
You come hot, marching between one blazing Arab & one crazy Jew.
Poem of the Week
Ode to What I Do Not Know
by Gbenga Adesina
Two animals, doe-eyed, slick across the road into the femur of the night.
Poetry
Ode: Feeling Up My Friend’s Sister at the Moment Their Drunken Father Begins the Dog Slaughter
by James Kimbrell
She takes her shirt at the waist and pulls it up slowly: her hips, belly, bra.
Masterpieces
Odessa, Mon Amour
by James Salter
He wrote and rewrote endlessly, and rose at night to reread pages.
Story of the Week
Odessa, Odessa
by Davíd Lavie
It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food.
Poetry
Odysseus’s Mother-in-Law
by Terese Svoboda
If party isn’t what we set out to do then you should go home.
Poem of the Week
Odyssey
by Andrew Nance
Today is my favorite kind of day. Night opens, light concedes.
Poem of the Week
Of Blood and Stem
by Sam Roxas-Chua
If I had known I would have saved the abacus from the fire.
Story of the Week
Of Companions and Flatterers
by Sir Richard Steele
There is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a friend.
Poetry
Of Course Pliny Got Here First and Other Poems
by Marianne Boruch
Some asshole on a joyride in the outback runs her down, the emu.
Story of the Week
Oh
by Marianne Boruch
Children, this is what a bad dream looks like, our teacher said.
Nonfiction
Of God and His Enemies
by Hal Crowther
Logic is such an elegant weapon; and religion, such an easy target.
Story of the Week
Of Kin and Kind
by Various Authors
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.
Poem of the Week
Of Marriage, of Glass Gardens
by Nicole Cooley
Once upon a time, a couple wandered in a glass forest, hand in hand.
Poetry
Of or Pertaining to the Dog Days
by Timothy Leo
There are only two genders! Ma cries there is one sun, one moon.
Poetry
Of the God That Comes to Mind
by Gina Franco
Relief workers tore swaths of insulation from the rafters of the house.
Story of the Week
Of the Meaning of Progress
by W. E. B. Du Bois
The longing to know hovered like a star above this child-woman.
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Story of the Week
Of the Novel
by Guy de Maupassant
I do not intend in these pages to put in a plea for this little novel.
Poem of the Week
of the propoetides
by Rachel Clemens
our hands are full of those women tricked or transformed.
Fiction
Off to Zamboanga
by Robert Stone
“Why on earth are you taking luxury cruise passengers to Zamboanga?”
Fiction
oh
by Lance Olsen
Doctor Dressler left her a note: Suicide. Back by 7:00. Love, Max.
Poem of the Week
Oh Father, Your Fear
by Matt W. Miller
Is it that he is too tired or too afraid to blink into the oil of his own machine?
Poetry Contest Winners
Oh for Fuck’s Sake
by Dion O’Reilly
Everything rushes in. Everything that ever drove me crazy with dumb hope, every letdown.
Poetry
Oh You Little Faith
by Robin Myers
What if it does choose, the egg, I mean, her favorite spermatozoon.