Poetry by Ellen Welcker
Horse loves the beaver and its habit of / reengineering the entire ecosystem. Horse sees in the beaver’s efforts a reflection / of her dreams, her goals, and her work ethic. This is a fiction.
Issue No. 14
Poetry
Poetry by Em Robidoux
My mother never left her high school / science class bored to rub one out / in the stall of the girl’s room.
Poetry by Chessy Normile
I know some people walk backwards through their death into the room they left. / Who told them to do that? Nobody.
Poetry by Bunny Morris
I suffer at your hands / and their absence.
Poetry by Emily Hunt
She read for the host / the voice of a person who’d died alone…
Poetry by Robert Fernandez
c when I enter a / room I forget it’s / a room…
Poetry by Steve Castro
The noises coming from the kitchen were unique / like the toenails of our Australian Shepherd / on our hardwood floors.
Poetry by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
after all pegasus was born / from the blood of the gorgon / and my moods dom me when I sing
Poetry by Orion Allen
Thought of you often. Wanted to tell you / about the men I served and what I was / to them, their drunkenness, about these years…
Fiction
“Mouse House” by Shelby Switzer
Today is surgery day. Yesenia wakes up two minutes before her alarm goes off. Bailey is still sleeping, curled into a fetal position. Her…
“Kalki on the Prowl” by Swati Sudarsan
Curses linger, so Kalki moves. Movement traces the long edges of her memory, a personal rain cloud hovering over her, reminding her that it…
“Hole in Your Head, Hole in Your Heart” by Joe Baumann
Jackson enjoys a good ghost story as much as anyone else, he explains to Devon after they look at the house. He’s just not…
Nonfiction
“Genealogy” by Ira Sukrungruang
My wife Deedra waves her hands at the other end of the Delaware County Public Library to get my attention. It isn’t an easy…
“Stone Fruit” by Jamie Cattanach
A boy in the desert painted my picture once. He was living in a tent. There was snow on the ground, but he’d taken…
“Chrysalis” by Sheree
Golden sunlight bears the heat of tempered metal when I land at Norman Manley, and all the protection I have is the small shadow…
Art
Art by Zaynab Bobi
About the Artist Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Frontier I, a Nigerian-Hausa poet, digital artist, and photographer who is an undergraduate student of Medical Laboratory Science…
Art by Anna Maeve
About the Artist Anna Maeve is a 30 something jill of all trades hailing from New Zealand. These images are from the feminist series…
Art by Robin Young
About the Artist Robin Young, based in Borrego Springs, California works in mixed media focusing mostly on collage and contemporary art making. Her focus…