Excerpts

Creative Nonfiction

Joely Fitch

On Eating Books: An Ambivalence My friend asks the question: if you had to eat a book, which book? We’re…

Read More
Poetry

Rita Feinstein

It’s Always the Moon my imaginary lover is not a womanbut sometimes she appears to me on a red slate…

Read More
Fiction

Jessica Fordham Kidd

The Pillory Let me be clear—my town has no history. No one notable has ever lived here. No battles fought,…

Read More
Creative Nonfiction

Kathryn M. Barber

forte crescendo fortissimo bassnectar beats in my head, that forte crescendo fortissimo & there weren’t any strobe lights in that…

Read More
Fiction

Natasha Ayaz

Alternative Behind the ancient, artisanal smoke shop – with its rose-scented rolling papers and cardamom-infused oils and hand-engraved boxes of…

Read More
Creative Nonfiction

Kylie Smith

uz devyniu juru She writes Gyvenimas on the board. Says that there is birth and death and that gyvenimas, life,…

Read More
Poetry

Emma DePanise

the narrated footage of muusoctopus robutsus omits their withering away I want to tell you about the purple octopuses, more…

Read More
Poetry

Ron Stottlemyer

Caught You already know somebody like that old man making his way down the country lane—tousled white hair, slow strides,…

Read More
Fiction

Cathy Ulrich

How to Say Goodbye When You Really Mean Hello The teenage girl at the end of the world gathers all…

Read More
Creative Nonfiction

Savannah Carlin

The Regeneration of Earthworms On a Central Park footpath, a worm thrashes for its life. A robin slices off a…

Read More