Samantha Tucker—I’m Depending on You
Samantha Tucker I'm Depending on You to Tell Me the Truth She is on a boat. It’s a ship, not a boat, and everything is Technicolor because it’s 1962 and [...]
Annie Olson—A New and Different Sun
Annie Olson A New and Different Sun I flew to Anchorage in late May of 2002. I don’t remember the plane ride. I also don’t remember which hotel I stayed [...]
Alice Elliott Dark—My Blue Trunk
Alice Elliott Dark My Blue Trunk Recently I had an email from my Paris friend. I still think of her that way, though she hasn’t lived in Paris for twenty-five [...]
Edie Meidav—Questions of Travel
Edie Meidav Questions of Travel "Parco Guell 002" by Phyrexian - Own work. "Kvinnohuvud1-hstd" by Jonas Ericsson - Own work. Is it better to have stayed here and thought of [...]
Indira Ganesan—Not Knowing
Indira Ganesan Not Knowing Driving early in the morning is like driving in the night. If you live at the end of Cape Cod, as I do, where you are [...]
Meghan McClure
Meghan McClure Sketches of Everything Except You He leans against the wall outside my daughters’ school. His camo pants worn soft and thin at the knee and hem. His camo [...]
Edmund Sandoval
Edmund Sandoval As to Who We Are We are friends now. Yes. Sort of. Kind of we are friends. It is like acting. If we were actors. But we are [...]
Phillip Snyder
Phillip A. Snyder Chew the Coca, Take the Valium My sister Tracey never tires of telling the story of Aunt Maurine and Uncle Wilson going to Peru with a tourist [...]
Marcia Aldrich
Marcia Aldrich Houses of Detention My parents thought of college as a witness protection program where I would be given a new identity. When they picked Wells for my [...]
Sarah Bates
Sarah Bates Pacing Leo That summer Virginia Woolf said though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. When you show me the bear, all I can [...]
Kyoko Mori
Kyoko Mori Pet Love A woman I met in Wisconsin had a pet turkey named “Christmas,” one of the two birds originally raised by her brother-in-law for the holiday [...]
Rachel Toliver
Rachel Toliver The Acres “What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking [...]