Steve Klepetar Confession I would confess to you here by this dark pond, tell you everything that happened when I fell to earth, carve your name on my wrist, request your blessing on my little wound. Steve Klepetar is grateful for the Ambidextrous Bloodhound Dental Plan.
Read MoreSteve Klepetar At the Shore My friend, whose ears are full of sirens and sea sounds, who cannot quiet the noise, sits among rocks as seabirds leap into a silence of sky. Steve Klepetar is grateful for the Ambidextrous Bloodhound Dental Plan.
Read MoreTodd Mercer Our Local Banksy There’s the Billboard Fixer again, up there without permission, making the existing sign funnier through strategic additions of paint, saving our collective souls from the vampire that is commerce, each mission technically a misdemeanor. Todd Mercer of Grand Rapids and “Up North” areas harbors serious concerns, but prefers to suffer […]
Read MoreCaitlin Gemmell Fable The wind found a network of stars in a wrinkled, worn sack. Caitlin Gemmell is a poet and novelist in a ramshackle house atop a hill in New York State, though her heart is still in England.
Read MoreIan Willey Social Media I was out walking when a man ran up to me saying “sparrows swiftly berate the summit, pass it on!” so I said “okay!” and said just that to a woman walking her Shiba Inu who said “sure!” and hurried off towards someone else and I watched as people bounced into […]
Read MoreKathryn Ganfield Frost Advisory I saw a ghost through the living room window tonight, only it just was my neighbor, the spirited one, waving up a white sheet and sheltering her flower boxes from the cold— proof that ghosts are tender too. Kathryn Ganfield has always lived in river towns, and for the longest time […]
Read MoreClaire Bateman Sweet World Where I come from, our currency is cakes, each the precise size, mass, and density of the purchase, so all of our vehicles are permanently hitched to refrigerated trailers roomy enough for even the Barcalounger cake, the washer/dryer cakes, the SUV cake, though always there are structural issues to consider— foundation, […]
Read MoreDagne Forrest Reduction The most volatile of elements, like love, is with us, inconsistent, inconstant, insistent, until in an instant it isn’t. Dagne Forrest is a Canadian who lives with several other humans, an athletic labrador retriever who suffers from separation anxiety, three cats, and a small flock of chickens.
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