In the middle of winter, I discovered an invincible summer inside me. -Albert Camus (from Part III of “The Invention of Summer”) My idea […]
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The Craft of Knives
First Monsoon
by Nazanin Knudsen
10. Early Mornings The 5:00 AM train that goes through the Sixth Street underpass whistles in the distance. Shuffling the pillows, I try to find a position that offers some relief from the pressure in the back of my neck. I live in an apartment near the University of Arizona campus. As an only child […]
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by Sofia Ciriello, translated from the Italian by Scott Belluz
There was a crack in the wooden floor underneath the living room table. In fact, it had always been there. The split was barely noticeable, widening in the middle to form an oval, almost like an almond. Sara had looked at it many times but that day was different: the light touched it differently so […]
Our Small Faces by Jamie Moore Reviewed
by Raki Kopernik
This is a story about friendship: the way it changes as we discover sexuality and as we begin to understand the way our bodies are seen in the world in all of its forms.
During the Pandemic, I watch Caddyshack Again and Again
by Christina Olson
This poem was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize. My favorite part is when Danny swings his body down the fire escape, tippy-toes onto the porch railing, throws a leg over the old ten-speed with the handlebars like ram horns, and pedals off to the country club. Eighteen and invincible. Danny […]
The Book of Rusty
by Benjamin Drevlow
This story was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize and nominated for The Best of the Net. If anybody was ever gonna write the Book of Rusty which nobody was, nobody including not Rusty, but if they were they’d have to trace its origins all the way back to seventh grade. […]
Spellbound—The Witch Discovers Magic
by Liz Kay
The first spring lamb was born blind, and before the days grew full long, three women died in their birthing beds-one we buried with her belly still large, the babe stuck tight inside her. Midwife said there must be a witch in our midst, twisting shut the wombs with some black, black magic. She made […]
The Witch Introduces Herself
by Liz Kay
Everyone wants to know about the children, how they are and if they made it out. What does it matter now? Can you see there is no happy here, not ever after all? I, too, was a child once and wrestled my way out. I was one who was not devoured. Look who I am […]
Interview with Liz Kay
by Katherine Fallon
KATHERINE FALLON: Liz Kay’s poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Nimrod, Willow Springs, The New York Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Redactions, and Sugar House Review. She is the author of The Witch Tells the Story and Makes it True (Quarter Press) the chapbook, Something to Help Me Sleep (dancing […]
One Who Was Not Devoured: A Review of Liz Kay’s The Witch Tells the Story and Makes It True
by Katherine Fallon
It is no secret we are supposed to despise the witch in the traditional fairy tale, but while brutal, this witch is not lonely, nor is she pathetic, and we question whether her violence is unwarranted.
