Scott Hughes Anniversary Today, on what would have been our seventeenth anniversary, I am instead alone, waist-deep in the Atlantic, burying my feet in sand like wet cement and leaning toward the empty beach to steady myself against the pull of a wave building behind me, and I wonder why I’m resisting the ocean’s desire […]
Read MoreScott Hughes Silver Dog My sixteen-year-old Mini Schnauzer can barely walk and often stands in place, staring at a wall or down an empty hallway as though a voice only he can hear is calling him close, perhaps telling him what a good boy he’ll always be. Scott Hughes has two books coming out, so […]
Read MoreJessy Randall 2 poems Your Name Is Your Name Your name is your name, and the password is password. The Train Bursts All day hours of work and more work and then the train bursts like a flower at five o’clock and I’m home. Jessy Randall‘s poems and other things have appeared in McSweeney’s, Poetry, […]
Read MoreIan Willey Knowing That You stand by the river knowing that the birds flying overhead are people you once knew, that they will never come this way again, that the formation holding them together is a trick of the eye, that there’s nothing you can do about the gunshots rising from the reeds along the […]
Read MoreHowie Good Haters, Inc. Any one of us is every one of us, if you get what I mean, the same formula, the same diagram sketched on a napkin, only we don’t much act like it, our ranks filled out with haters, coming to shoot strangers in the face, burn churches to the ground, laugh […]
Read MoreShruthi Shivkumar sunflower once you were one of those golden beauties bending towards light, like a yogist plant practicing sun salutation, but something about you chasing passing rays made me glow less bright, and now you don’t bend any longer. Shruthi Shivkumar has been writing since she could form letters of the alphabet with a […]
Read MoreMargie Gaffron Fishing Expedition In my old age I hold the line, wait patiently day after day after day no fish until one day I release the line, become the stream, become the minnow who wishes to be swallowed whole. Margie Gaffron is on a daily journey, after many twists and turns, back to who […]
Read MoreSteve Klepetar Good Lovin’ A man wakes up after getting bumped on the head, discovers he’s the only person on earth who remembers the Young Rascals, belts out “Good Lovin’” (which sounded like “Dude-A-Love” on the record which doesn’t exist in this alternate world), becomes a megastar, gets elected president, abuses his power by signing […]
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