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by Kathleen Jones

March 2, 2023 Contributed By: Kathleen Jones

Side view of a woman's hands typing on a computer keyboard.

Mary isn’t a great internet name. When she introduces herself to someone new, she always assumes they’re picturing the lady who birthed the baby Jesus or a different Mary washing Jesus’ feet or a pious and forgettable woman circa 1610 or 1743 or 1872. She wears muslin skirts and a mop cap and goes about […]

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: March 2, 2023

Baba Yaga and the Bird
by Sophie Panzer

February 13, 2023 Contributed By: Rebecca Pyle, Sophie Panzer

Aerial interpretation of the ground with tan background, white and grey rectangle right of center and black, red and orange lines surrounding it.

Baba Yaga lives deep in the Hudson Valley in a house on chicken legs. She studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design back in the ’50s and transformed the stilts holding the home up over her backyard pond.  Her lot is surrounded by an ancient fence studded with bleached skulls—deer and squirrel bones […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction Posted On: February 13, 2023

Caterpillar by Dragana Mokan
translated from the Serbian by John K. Cox

February 6, 2023 Contributed By: Claudea, Dragana Mokan, John K. Cox

This image depicts a painting of differently sized and patterned circles in hues of black and yellow, and it is reminiscent of looking through a microscope at cells.

Agnica was sitting in a pink room that smelled sweet. Mama had sent her to the neighbors to get a bouquet. She accepted a plate of cake from Miss Jovanka.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: February 6, 2023

Saoirse
by Peter Gordon

January 5, 2023 Contributed By: Peter Gordon

"Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant)" (1865) by Gustave Courbet from the Art Institute of Chicago

Can you imagine naming a girl freedom? he asks me. Can you even know what that would do to her brain, starting when she was a baby, being someone who gets to go through life doing whatever the fuck she wants?

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: January 5, 2023

An Account of Vertebrates
by Mandira Pattnaik

December 29, 2022 Contributed By: Mandira Pattniak

jellyfish

In the event of being just matured, we could be jellyfish — pliable, buoyant, floral.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: December 29, 2022

Sons
by Bodie Fox

December 22, 2022 Contributed By: Bodie Fox, Claudea

"Isolation" by Claudea

A drop of water splashes on her face when I lift my foot, silt clinging to my sole. She gently cradles my heel in her hand as she wets a corner of the rag. A school of tadpoles swim by. A crooked grin breaks over his teeth. The rag tickles, but my stomach curls. Sons and I don’t look at each other while she works between my toes.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: December 22, 2022

This is the part
by Francine Witte

December 15, 2022 Contributed By: Claudea, Francine Witte

"The Other Side" by Claudea

where I believe that it was the goddamn fault of the night willow, that if it hadn’t been so blacked out like it was, bowed so brushy and low, you could have seen your way around it. Could have driven a clean road home like you do every night, except this one.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: December 15, 2022

Parable of the Mother
by Lane Chasek

December 8, 2022 Contributed By: Lane Chasek

rustic door with hole showing decrepit interior room

Her gift, which she discovered when she was sixteen, consists of looking at these pieces of garbage and watching them take the shape of a human being.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: December 8, 2022

Awkward Little Creatures that Flail About, 1956
by John Brantingham

November 24, 2022 Contributed By: John Brantingham

Kid sitting on ledge outside

it’s early June twilight, the bats just now coming out and they stand awkwardly on the gravel of the driveway, crunching it back staring up at the little creatures that flail about until Henry asks Clyde what he wants, which is natural enough but said in a little punk tone that Clyde wants to slap out of his mouth

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: November 24, 2022

“Your Eyes In the Darkness”
A Review of Rick White’s Talking to Ghosts at Parties
by Chase Erwin

November 17, 2022 Contributed By: Chase Erwin, Rick White

Talking to Ghosts at Parties book cover

White drags the reader, as if by the collar, through moments in time and space that reflect and refract each other, both literally and thematically.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: November 17, 2022

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