Negesti Kaudo Unbothered: A Microaggression Excerpt from Negesti Kaudo’s Ripe: Essays, used by permission of Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press. And when it [...]

Liesl Schwabe Ten Rupees a Kilo Waiting for lunch one afternoon, I dragged a blue wooden bench and an uneven table out back, to eat my thali under the [...]

Zoë Bossiere Into the Body of the Light  The tattoo was thickly outlined in black with minimal detail, covering the entire top of his shaved head. On our first [...]

L.I. Henley Unusual Clouds June, 2011 Today is full of unusual clouds—looping strokes of sky-cursive, grey wisps of cirrus near the horizon, and the low-level, ropelike billows whose underbellies [...]

Rebecca Tan  Homesick The house at the end of Colchester Grove looks over an angular cul-de-sac shrouded in old, gangly trees. In 1994, my father drove his Toyota down [...]

Vincent Scarpa The Sound of Silence The thing I do remember is what I said to the woman playing the hand-held harp. This was as I was falling under [...]

Steve Fellner On Marxism, My Mother's Body, and the State of Nonfiction I wrote a memoir about my mother no one read. It won a contest no one entered. [...]

Kate McQuade If I Don't Answer Ghosts in the house. Scampers in the walls, rustles in the ceiling. A steady thumping above our bed at night. We had moved [...]

Charles Jensen Spliced: Get Them to the Niche / Get Him to the Greek Get Him to the Greek, 2010. Dir. Nicholas Stoller FRIDAY We approached the U.S./Canada border [...]

Melissa Wiley The End of Longing After my husband left for work this morning, I made another cup of coffee and washed dishes. I wiped soapy hands against jeans [...]

Kate Levin Ghost of a Leaf “Your due date,” the website instructs, “is calculated by adding 40 weeks to the first day of your last menstrual period. Note that [...]

Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). He’s won a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from [...]