Volume 3 Number 1
Tease, he smiled. His hands trembled when he clutched her shoulders. His nose began to run and he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. I…
On the television, the weather man’s arms sweep down like skinny birds, his fingers pressed together, following the conch-like motion of the wind. The winds…
Outside the city there are lumberyards and there are ravines, men playing soccer, freeway passes and bridges, then the plains, and at one point, a…
A few good-hearted people, mostly women, imported tons of topsoil to the beach on Midway Island in an effort to prevent it from eroding, to…
The Laysan albatross will spend nearly half its life at sea. This amounts to almost twenty years spent adrift, and though we might follow its…
The chubby X inside hates to bleed, the skinny one loves it. She gets an A-line haircut, sleeps 8-15 minutes in a tanning bed, buys…
The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…
A person can easily forget how big seagulls really are. –Mary Ruefle The same is true for all the living. Once, on a jungle hike,…
At the poet’s eulogy, a speaker says Larry came to him in a dream—recognizable stubble, salted hair, those piercing eyes—and gave him the perfect definition…
Amy Ping wanted to kill herself. Lily Pong wanted to get born again. Such were the disparities in life; that they were touring China together…