Volume 7 Number 1

Moonshine

The red cow kept pushing, pushing, after the calf was born, after the placenta was delivered. She pushed until her uterus prolapsed. It bulged out…

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The Dove

They flew straight from a wedge of trees east of the field. When the men shot, air cracked open. My brother and I pressed our…

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In Omaha

I cracked my heart on the kitchen table. I did it two weeks ago because I wanted to see inside of it. Everyone says you’ve…

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Navigating Home

Sometimes eating only chicken and fixings from where Claude worked and pizza from where Jodie worked got old, but most of the time it didn’t….

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Corner

I ate an entire terrycloth bath towel. Are you going to jump and raise your hand in the air and say, Oh me too! Me…

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Lake

On impact, the glass explodes and keeps exploding. It’s only when the cold hits that I realize that it’s lake water. I am pushed back…

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Trying Hard to Rain

Balthazar is staring out the window. Outside it is trying hard to rain but the first drops are arguing among themselves, not heeding their first…

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Coming of Age

“Childhood is tricky business…” Maurice Sendak Balthazar is awoken by the sound of the front door slamming. A car engine outside revs and Balthazar thinks…

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Presence

In the trailer it’s morning. She makes the coffee now, because her husband’s hands aren’t alive to hold down the grinder. Noisy as he was,…

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Darlene

It was so hot that summer that when Benji hopped from his front porch he found his kickball melted to the driveway. Sighing, he peeled…

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