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Short Fiction and Poetry


Watchful Beasts by Paul Goudarzi-Fry
Far below us, I can see the barrel cactuses on the side of the plateau,
and he drags me back wordlessly by the neck away from the edge [...]


Water Bird by Maureen O'Leary
We watched through the back window as she ran after our bus in the rain. We: Dry. Confined. Going forward [...]


Chit by Ted Naughton
We worked in two rows. Our father dug up spuds in dress trousers, the big yellow tubers encrusted with bog navy earth surrounding him [...]


Sentiment In Santa Cruz by Katey Taylor
cotton candy and carnival rides, stretched across the boardwalk tides [...]


Comfort Food by Devonne Parsons
“What’s for Dinner, Mom?”
Sweat dripped from my bangs, like little streams of salt water dripping from a pier after high tide [...]


The Third Person; Transfarency by Charles Rammelkamp
While at the day care lady’s
picking up my daughter after work,
one of the moms, Kathy,
is telling us about an accident [...]


The House On Maple Avenue by William Falo
The township employee mowed the grass that grew so high that neighbors complained about it even while they had ignored the cries [..]


Haunted Waters; Phroggers by Keith Hoerner
Deep below the lake’s murky surface, there sits—intact—a house. A two-story structure of Carpenter Gothic details like elaborate wood [...]


Bitter Truths; Over-Simplification; Fatalism by Samantha Terrell
We sketch our realities with great
Care, filling in details that are perpetually
Smudged out [...]


Amazing Grace by Dennis Stein
My granddaughter is very gifted already, but in a very strange way…[...]
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