Excerpts

Fiction

Tyler Anne Whichard

A Child Unlearns the Unloving of a Momma The fact Hazel never had a momma makes me feel better about…

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Poetry

Matt Guenette

I Get the Fish Tattoo Take a selfie, send it to my brothers who send back pics of their kids…

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Poetry

Brett Dionysius

Pyrenean Ibex Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica We are the only species to exist that has died twice. The first-time round was…

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Fiction

Maggie Dillow

She showed me her palms. Small and white. At six years old, it was the butterflies. Collected in an old…

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Poetry

Rob Carney

“HE’S SUCH A GOOD LISTENER” I knew a man who made money / from having three ears. While some stood…

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Poetry

Tessa Livingstone

Grant, 1970 When you were twelve & your horse reared up, uprooting the wooden stake from soft soil & how…

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Creative Nonfiction

Monique Kluczykowski

My Father’s Silent Films They have always been in an old blue suitcase—the hard-backed kind with brass latches and airline…

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Poetry

Dana Alsamsam

On the Porch of my childhood home     Orion’s belt confronts me I tell him everything’s changed     even the coffee in…

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Poetry

Matt Mauch

Half a human tooth shares roughly the same make-up as one of the chunks you masticate a handful of peanut…

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Fiction

Sabrina Li

Borrowing It was summer, and the lake at the end of Emma’s house stank of the heat, the moon hung…

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