Boss, we have a problem.
I hear Little Gu’s frantic whisper through my walkie talkie. Little Gu is only three years out of college and already my best worker.
I survey our tables as I walk towards him. ...
Freedom by Catherine Wang
Fiction
A Romantic Love
by Ádám Nádasdy
It began when I was nine years old. Don’t be so shocked, there’s love that can begin at such an age: little Dante was also just nine when he fell in love with Beatrice. When I ...
Nonfiction Short Story from I Slung My Hook by Ádám Nádasdy translated by Austin Wagner
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AMERICAN DIVA: EXTRAORDINARY, UNRULY, FABULOUS BY DEBORAH PAREDEZ
Review by Catherine McNulty
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Publication date: May 21, 2024
ISBN: 9781324035305
Pages: 239
The Divas Electric, ...
AMERICAN DIVA: EXTRAORDINARY, UNRULY, FABULOUS BY DEBORAH PAREDEZ Review by Catherine McNulty
Book Reviews
Arin and Rachel take shrooms on the same dayI skip my meds so we can all trip together.Every time I am sitting with friends on a blanket at Grange Park at 6pm drinking carton rosé I’m like,This is what I was born to ...
I Love My Friends by Rob Macaisa Colgate
Poetry
Dedicated to Tortuguita*
What if it was not Icarus who flew too high? Perhaps, instead, it was Daedalus who arced ever-upward, broad wings beating, too entranced by his own creation to turn around. Higher he went, ...
Sun Rise by Zack Fox Loehle
Flash Fiction
Her baby blew a spit bubble and reached for her with its squishy, underinflated arms, and they both giggled. She and her baby had been spending their days at the sticky, fluorescent food court in Glenwood Mall, which ...
NUMB-NUMB by Marc Tweed
Fiction
WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WONDER By Maya C. Popa
Review by Dustin Pickering
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.
Publication Date: November 8, 2022
ISBN: 9781324076216
Pages: 96
Scripting the ...
WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WONDER By Maya C. Popa Review by Dustin Pickering
Book Reviews
for A.E.M.There’s nothing obscure about our sorrow— no reason to coin new terms for this needto pace the suddenly bare room wailing,wadded tissues scattered ...
After Chemo Failed by Dawn Manning
Poetry
Some time ago in a Sardinian literary magazine, La terra dei nuraghes, The Land of Nuraghes, I read this legend, charmingly recorded by Pompeo Calvia, one of the finest Sardinian writers.
It tells the story ...
San Pietro of Sorres by Grazia Deledda translated by Anne Schuchman
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