Poetry
Amaranth and Lily
by Sandie Seeger
June 16, 2022
I’m crushed that every charm, bottom, top, down,
and strange up, he commanded.
All those quark particles
moving close to the speed of light, were his...
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Poetry
Five Days in April
(I Hear My Mother’s Voice)
by Mary Foulk
June 16, 2022
Monday
Torrential rain and wind. I wait again, drinking
chardonnay in the dark dining room. The ceiling
needs repainting. Flakes chip and fall...
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Short Story
Still Life
by Pam Wolfson
June 09, 2022
Alone now, I work in my studio every day. By the window, by the mad blue water on this summer evening, I draw a teapot and two onions. As I sketch the spout’s shadow with charcoal, my wife’s velvety voice fills my ears... read more >
MONTHLY FLASH
Sex on the Beach
by Hillary Flynn
April 28, 2022
Before I went to rehab for the second time I dated a rich southern guy so comfortable with his masculinity that he wore bright pink polo shirts to nightclubs in the South Bronx. We met through a dating app where he swiped right on a profile I had made of a girl who looked like a more relatable version of me... read more >
Poetry
Oblation
by Tanya Grae
April 14, 2022
My gynecologist asks if others may watch
& I consent, already numb, why not?
There should be an audience for this end.
An antiphon could be written in the hum
of machinery & whirr. My feet in cold metal
stirrups, my legs bent high in a squat...
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Poetry
Ode To A Personal Boundary
by Heikki Huotari
June 16, 2022
in the space force too. A convex combination of no atrophy, no
rigor mortis and no octopod... read more >
MONTHLY FLASH
The Memory Activists
by Jefferson Navicky
June 09, 2022
They knew surprisingly little about the world. At least in its current state of wireless access and passwords and data. Their purview went back further, deeper. Many led campaigns against the Memory Activists, the many for whom forgetting is a more advantageous pursuit. This included not only the expected governmental forces backed by clandestine power and fear... read more >
MONTHLY FLASH
The 13th Element
by Taylor Miles
June 09, 2022
Nadia looked out at the scrap metal mountains in the yard. The two silver reflective stripes along the back of her neon orange jacket glowed in the sunset. She opened her mouth and bit down on a chip. Crunch, crunch. Tangy salt and vinegar sting, slight numbness of the tongue... read more >
Poetry
Kaddish
by Marina Weiss
April 22, 2022
That morning light held
tight to the concrete. We threw
dirt on the feet
of the coffin lowering
to the grave...
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Book Review
Review: Chasing Homer
by László Krasznahorkai
April 14, 2022
Near the midpoint of László Krasznahorkai’s novella Chasing Homer, the unnamed narrator makes an assertion that broadly conveys the generative impulse behind the work’s circuitous, monological, and disconcertingly gripping style... read more >
