May It Be SoThe day remains behind,barely used and already useless.The great light begins,all gateways give way toa sleeping man,time is a tree that does not stop growing.Time,the great half-open door,the blinding ...
Two Poems by Blanca Varela Translated by Liana Kapelke-Dale
Translations
If my grandfather hadn’t died of heart failure—heartbreak, my grandmother insists—a year before the towers fell, he would have been buried under a hundred floors of steel and concrete and shattered glass. His last ...
The Button by Scott Nadelson
Fiction
Part One
Each night, I teach my daughter to love me. I call our nightly play sessions, “special mommy time” –fifteen minutes when I say yes to my two-year-old, follow her lead, and narrate her movements aloud. ...
The Sheep by Calley Marotta
Nonfiction
THE FUTURE WAS COLOR: A NOVEL BY PATRICK NATHAN
Review by Matthew Lemas
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication Date: June 04, 2024
ISBN: 9781640096240
Pages: 224
Creating Art in the Nuclear Age: Patrick ...
THE FUTURE WAS COLOR: A NOVEL BY PATRICK NATHAN Review by Matthew Lemas
Book Reviews
After “One Train May Hide Another,” by Kenneth Koch
When you are hit by that fear of preferring not to talk with someone who approaches. When you stop to turn away and pull a copy of Tristram Shandy out of the ...
You Think It Is Safe To Cross by Millicent Borges Accardi
Poetry
Honey, it’s too tight. Let’s try a larger one.
It’s fine, mom.
No, it’s not, sweetie. You need a larger one. Look, see how tight it is.
They don’t have a larger one.
Are ...
Back-to-School Barbie by Donald A. Ranard
Flash Fiction
A friend told me she’d never been in love. The friend is a dance friend, a woman in her 40s, divorced, and currently in a long-term relationship.
“I think the closest thing to being in love I’ve ever felt ...
The Closest Thing Has Always Been by Emily Mathis
Nonfiction
Carly Alaimo is a writer from Augusta, GA. She received her MFA in Fiction from Georgia State University. Her work has been published in The Harvard Advocate, Phoebe Journal, Split Lip ...
IT’S A QUIZ! by Carly Alaimo
Fiction
Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams
Review by Donna Vatnick
Publisher: Tin House Books
Publication Date: July 2, 2024
ISBN: 978-1959030591
Pages: 176
Joy Williams has long been obsessed ...