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In Defense of My Yankee Boyfriend
by Rachel Stempel

February 18, 2021 Contributed By: Rachel Stempel

in defense of my yankee boyfriend   i want nothing more than randomized curvature from yours then his then yours again   feign my line of questioning to drain chromosomal sacks of malcontent from every whatever i spit to flame.   from the underbelly i settle hard swallows gauzed in sweat or other. i carve […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: February 18, 2021

When You’re Back
by Rachel Stempel

February 18, 2021 Contributed By: Rachel Stempel

When you’re back,   look  to your left   there’s a great deal of it spread thin though I’d like to scoop & saver, too,   slather on the skin I had at seventeen.   Bone dust setting spray keeps  your ears pulled back    keeps  you younger than you need   a certain charm […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: February 18, 2021

Twelve Steps Ahead
by Evan Lavender-Smith

February 17, 2021 Contributed By: Evan Lavender-Smith

This is one of two instances in your life when you will receive these instructions. There is only one step you’re allowed to hear this time—the last one. It will be the first thing you hear when you’re born and it will be one of the worst things a human being could ever be told. […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Nonfiction Posted On: February 17, 2021

The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves
by Rachel Swearingen

February 16, 2021 Contributed By: Rachel Swearingen

The following is excerpted from Rachel Swearingen’s debut story collection, How to Walk on Water. Her stories and essays fiction have appeared in VICE, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of the 2018 New American Fiction Prize, Swearingen has also won the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction and […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction Posted On: February 16, 2021

Interview with Salvation Day Author Kali Wallace
by Chase Erwin

February 15, 2021 Contributed By: Chase Erwin

Kali Wallace was born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She attended Brown University, where she took an undergraduate degree in Geology, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she completed a Ph.D. in Geophysics. Additionally, she is a graduate of the prestigious Clarion Workshop for SFF writers. Her short fiction has appeared in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: February 15, 2021

Sam Cohen Interviewed by Raki Kopernik: Queer Jewish Writers

February 11, 2021 Contributed By: Raki Kopernik

In Sarahland, a collection of stories woven together by characters named Sarah, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us. The cast of Sarahs finds ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and they discover new possibilities for life itself. In each Sarah’s refusal to adhere […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: February 11, 2021

STICK ME IN THE TRUNK AND DRIVE ME AROUND AND TALK TO ME
by Kari Teicher

February 10, 2021 Contributed By: Kari Teicher

Hello doctor, I’m having bad thoughts. I want to call you on the phone and tell you about bleach and corn and suffering. I want you to tell me what to do, but don’t make me do it. Here is the problem: What if we don’t like each other tomorrow. What if we drive each […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: February 10, 2021

PULP
by Kari Teicher

February 10, 2021 Contributed By: Kari Teicher

A fat black raccoon falls, plunges dives into the compost bin. You let him. Why shouldn’t he have a little pleasure. A little oil and vinegar, a little dry cake. Everyone has been baking, so there are no more poppyseeds. Should you plant a field of opium, so you can make the lemon muffins that […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: February 10, 2021

Gender Neutral
by Sarah Terez Rosenblum 

February 5, 2021 Contributed By: Sarah Terez Rosenblum

Every semester I get the same email from my program’s artistic director: “Hey Creative Writing Instructors! Introduce yourself to your students!”  The survey requests my favorite quotes about writing. (Chekov: “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”)  It invites me to share practical advice. (“If there’s […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content Posted On: February 5, 2021

My Cup Runneth Over
by Barbara Schwartz

February 3, 2021 Contributed By: Barbara Schwartz

1.   After each successful night, a vampire bat regurgitates his nutrient goop into the mouth  of his co-sleeper’s throat.    Next time, one sister-in-the-struggle may fly forth, wings agape signaling triumph, and   the once-sung hero, (now down-in-the-mouth) will have to wait   2.   for her.  My friend donated religiously when she was […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: February 3, 2021

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