Lia Greenwell
Lia Greenwell Objectivity A scale of pain and one side is heavier. I keep apologizing for the gentleness with which I came in to the world, and in which I’ve [...]
Jackleen Holton Hookway
Jackleen Holton Hookway Safari Fatigue On the second-to-last day at Lake Nakuru, field guide in hand, boots lodged in the darkbrown sludge. I watch as a lone Marabou [...]
Chloe Honum
Chloe Honum Nightfall in Spring Nightly, the smoke from the neighbor’s incinerator paws the air in our garden. Black flecks of newspaper settle across the violets. From the tip of [...]
Alexandra Teague
Alexandra Teague Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory and Gives an Impromptu Lecture "And has Baba Yaga really got iron teeth?" asked Vanya. "Iron, like the poker and [...]
Katharine Johnsen
Katharine Johnsen On Anticipation After a painting by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520 Here Charon is caught again on his journey, this trip his return, boat heavy, guiding his passenger between [...]
Arthur Davis
Arthur Davis The Hero of Monte Alegre The bus is crowded, mostly with men going to the gold camps nestled in the foothills, women clutching children on their hips with [...]
Evan Klavon
Evan Klavon Exploded View Once, they cut open a man and found amid the guts and offal, a length of thread caught upon his heart, that lead back down through [...]
Kim Frank
Kim Frank The Redshaw Sea Star The idea rose ten stories into the air. Open gondolas shaped like birdcages painted royal blue, canary yellow, purple, and green. Striped canopy roofs. [...]
Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee Underpinnings I confess I went through my feminist theory professor’s underwear drawer it felt important to know what was underneath do you think maybe I’m going to house [...]
Terry Mergenthal
Terry Mergenthal Waterhead Panic attacks ran in their family, according to Finola. She’d had them regularly when she was a girl, and seemed proud of it. Her parents treated her [...]
Julia Leverone-Paco Urondo
Francisco "Paco" Urondo Julia Leverone (translating) Por Soledades For Solitudes Un hombre es perseguido, una familia entera, una organización, un pueblo. La responsable de esta situación no es [...]
Michael Nye
Michael Nye The Photograph Annie received the phone call to return to New York on the same day her boyfriend Jason moved out of her house. It had been [...]