My boyfriend hands me a white espresso cup balanced on its matching saucer. The cup is filled with coffee the color of soil. From the…
I sat in cool bathwater listening as outside my mother and father tore out my lush green plants like weeds—roots clinging to the soil I’d…
We decided to hang Alfred. Viv went for rope. Tom went for a chair. I waited and talked with Alfred. We talked about spaceships and…
Mary stuttered her name again, and again, but it was clear the officer didn’t really care; the asking of her name was a reflex of…
And how many were there? The entire senior class, close to three hundred. Some administrators; a score of teachers. The football coach, six parents, one…
The fifth year seniors had been told often it was time, but they hung on with Members Only jackets and deviant eyewear. They called themselves…
It wasn’t the copperhead’s fault that my boot came down on its tail, no more than it was Bobby’s fault that he’d been raised by…
The fourth call of the day was an old woman who said she had monsters. Would have told her alligator. Illegal tegu. It was all…
VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 Allie Marini Batts, Barr Bielinski, Becky Bosshart, Cian Cruise, Chella Courington, Justin Lawrence Daugherty, Stephanie Dickinson, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Alisa Golden,…
Across the country, it will be like Christmas time, ringing of bells. Across the country, a warranted eventual warning sign. Ring, we would hear, come…