Nora Bonner
Nora Bonner Miss Thailand Country Band Lek waited forty-five minutes in the university garden before he accepted that his student wasn’t coming for a guitar lesson. Each lesson was worth [...]
Jane Rose Porter
Jane Rose Porter The Night Vera Robinov Got Shot 1. Everyone heard the gunshots on the lake the night Vera Robinov went walking. She should have known better than to [...]
Raina K. Puels
Raina K. Puels Bruised I first encountered Nan Goldin’s photography at a sleep-away art camp the summer after my junior year of high school. In an air-conditioned and windowless computer [...]
Diane Mehta
Diane Mehta Dip Your Hand In Wandering around in cemeteries forces you to wrestle with all the possibilities your life has left to offer. When you’re middle aged, and closer [...]
Cade Leebron
Cade Leebron Fork Theory Imagine that when you wake up in the morning you are handed a bunch of literal metal spoons and each of them represents an amount [...]
Kelly Grace Thomas
Kelly Grace Thomas Life/Boat The sea counts the coast- line. Bodies erase. Don’t worry. Your mother will always live inside the house you built for her. The earth hatches in [...]
Samuel Piccone
Samuel Piccone Black Velvet after Andrew Wyeth To the deer in the jacklit valley, it’s too late. I’m squeezing this trigger and it [...]
Katie Schmid
Katie Schmid Apple Glory In my front yard a man in a bulldozer has dug a grave. They say it’s for a fire hydrant. It looks sepulchral— a ladder descends [...]
Tara Deal
Tara Deal Mirror Finish I have a bit of metal sculpture in my bedroom. One palm-sized, smooth, shiny, aluminum, elephant-headed Hindu god from India on the nightstand. Minimal design on [...]
John Blair
John Blair Blue When you were a bird you wanted anything but blue. The woods were broken [...]
Rachel Toliver- Legion
Rachel Toliver Legion Karen had been spacing out, but when PastorMike said the word demons she started paying attention. She wasn’t a secret Satanist. She liked some aspects of Satanist [...]
Bryna Peebles Cofrin-Shaw
Bryna Peebles Cofrin-Shaw Errands My wife’s friend—my friend too, she reminded me—was coming over to conduct some nude drawings. Maybe conduct isn’t the word. She was coming over to look [...]