Temim Fruchter
Temim Fruchter Hungry “What’s the thing about the palm frond again?” Katelyn nudges me on our way up the front walk to Muriel’s door. It’s the first night of [...]
Gabriella Fee
Gabriella Fee lives in Cambridge, MA. Her work has been published in The Wellesley Review and The Blue Pencil, and is forthcoming in Levee Magazine. She has been [...]
Flash Flood Winner – Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly Dumpster Divers At closing time, the Little Caesars on Broad Street cleans house and tosses twenty fresh Hot and Ready pizzas, boxed and stacked, into an industrial [...]
Julialicia Case
Julialicia Case The Stories I Do Not Know For Sure When I first meet David, he’s wearing a NASCAR jacket, black with patches as bright as a carnival. I’ve [...]
Ellen Seusy
Ellen Seusy lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright, The Christian Science Monitor, [...]
Cady Vishniac
Cady Vishniac Bumper Crop Ev and I pass a chicken pecking at the wood chips by the swings on the way into his daycare. I figure this chicken comes [...]
Susannah Nevison – Preparing the Animal (Poetry)
Poetry Contest Winner Susannah Nevison Preparing the Animal I’ve been watching your hands for weeks, watching the rain gather its woolen shawl around the house, while you sharpen tools, lay [...]
Tobias Wray – Sci-fi Aubade (Poetry)
Poetry Contest Runner-Up Tobias Wray Sci-fi Aubade Say God breaks his covenant and floods return Manhattan to the deep where future fisherman dive for pearls. Say a diver blacks [...]
Xujun Eberlein – Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges (Nonfiction)
Nonfiction Contest Winner* *"Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges" was listed as a Notable essay in the Best American Essays of 2015 Xujun Eberlein Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges [...]
Nikki Moustaki – Big Blue (Fiction)
Fiction Contest Runner-Up Nikki Moustaki Big Blue Ren Holloway wanted the presidency of the South Florida Parrot Society so badly he wasn’t beyond poisoning John and Judy Conure’s birds. John [...]
Tori Malcangio – Ever Seen Sedona? (Fiction)
Tori Malcangio Ever Seen Sedona? I’m kneeled on the old woman’s green shag carpet, bubble-wrapping forty-three Tiffany- crystal miniature presidential busts from her china cabinet. Lance is across the [...]
Sam Sax
sam sax - Winner, 2016 Poetry Contest From contest judge, Melissa Kwasny: "It is the poem's immediacy that strikes me each time I read it, a north-wind immediacy that is [...]