What Life Became After You Left

by Andrea Aguayo Dad, Seda keeps barking at unknown sounds and she is due for a haircut soon. You…


the maps we drew

by Laura Murphy desert psychedelic blues celebration of vast liberation from sorrow far-out above…


The American Dream

by Hannah McCage Behind the face of every stranger is a frightened child, lonely for the comfort of…


The Borgia Apartment

by Pamela Chew I have entered contemporary religious expression On a cloudy Tuesday in October. We…


Black Leather

by Marc Cogman She said her Perfect Man would have one, an old leather jacket, worn ten years. So I…


A Shelf of My Grandmother’s Books

by T. Allen Culpepper She had collected the Harvard Classics too, in their dark green faux-leather…


The Long Goodbye

by Nina Smith The crackling fire had dwindled, leaving a bed of glowing embers and a few wispy…


Room Five-O-Four

by Mason Powell I had never seen pillars of marble so large and robust in my life. They traveled…


Phantasmagoria

by Brianna Sanow Rain is sliding down the window pane in a thick layer, as though someone is aiming…


Outdrawn

by John Gabriel The needle traced the grooves and rode up and down with the slight warp of the…