Short Fiction and Poetry

The Way of Sorrows by Charles R. Vermilyea Jr.

I am an unsuccessful man. My mind wanders. Suddenly I’m adrift in deep, open water. [...]

Farm-Haunted Grange by Gary Garafola

Leaf of brass Barn of blood Belladonna, sty of mud Sallow field Scent of ash Marigold and heather lash [...]

Child's Poem by Steph Moore

O devil? No devil behind an old oak tree; no matter how much I wish there could be [...]

Jimmie Don't Live Here Anymore; Sun Rain Bird Alone and my Sister’s Words Carved in Stone by Brian Michael Barbeito

The sky was impossibly blue, and though it was hurricane season, nothing had appeared weather wise. Until it did. [...]

the unbroken; the door crack by Miguel Rodríguez Otero

i wake up to a haze of automatic thoughts i drop a little jazz on my player suit up in my best shirt and check my cell phone [...]

No Return Access by Ryan C. Eubank

I was brushing my teeth with a cigarette butt in the shitter of some dive, testing whether or not the shadow in the mirror was halfway [...]

What Remains Unsayable by Susan Cronin

The dictionary animals are fast asleep, as they have been all their lives, as you were told when you were told [...]

The Birds Fly Up; The Drunken Planet by Noah Berlatsky

The birds fly up, The birds fly down, The birds fly underneath the ground[...] In layers of silt, beneath our feet Their feathers rustle,

A Sudden Calm by Brandon Shane

Old men puff cigars as crows caw on wire, and rain cleans the roofs, spilling onto tarped stands [...]

Chicken Spending Her Time With Me by Terry Trowbridge

A chicken is not a poultice even though I hug one to my chest. She followed me around all Summer pressing lawn under her scratchy toes [...]

an apology letter to my string of turtles by Alissa Miller

i have piled your shriveled shells in the corner of the windowsill. my knees fused together, i let the bedsheet terror consume me. [...]

snowbirding by Natalye Childress

it’s springtime in the nearctic realm. another season among the almácigo ends, as sun shadows contract. [...]

Prairie Boy by Gregg Norman

Canlit wild child Homeboy emeritus Frail and failing when I met him Under Merna’s watchful eye [...]

Sled by R.J. Sennett

My old sled hung in Aunt Tiss’s garage like a tattered old towel. On trips North, we’d visit it like a mummy in the Carnegie Museum. [...]

The Old Shoe Will Not Do by Bart Edelman

The love of your life Tells you she’s had it; The old shoe will not do. She grown, easily, a size or two, [...]

No Plans For Tomorrow by Diana Raab

The pensioned depravity of eyes obsessed by needlepoint loss of hunger for friends grasping worn leather purses [...]

The Swallows of Shady Bend; Reconciliation of the Dead; Peony Haiku 1 by Barbara A Meier

The swallows of Shady Bend carry the ghosts on the wisps of their tails, dragging them to the bridge from the muddy banks of the Saline[..]

daffodils by Julie Allyn Johnson

oh, but she’s a breezy, cool one today, a tempestuous zephyr running roughshod over early spring reveries of blissful meadows [...]

A Cheese Omelet at Leo's; Last Laughs by William Doreski

A plush of cheddar and eggs. As I fork it up, the ghosts of Harvard Square surround me, drawn by the thick aroma. [...]

Jelly Belly by Tara Zafft

My daughter calls this morning on her way to buy a bagel, it’s raining she says, grey and spring-raining, and here [...]

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