GRIEVING MOTHER IS FOUND LIVING WITH CORPSE OF HER DAUGHTER, 47, WHO DIED EIGHT MONTHS AGO Daily Mail July 2 2018 by Katherine Fallon

February 26, 2020

but have since / come to learn that the body won’t go shrivel up / like a raisin just because you tell it to, and it sure / won’t turn to dust.

Redress by Megan Sweeney

February 25, 2020

To redress: to remedy or set right; to relieve from distress; to make fair and equal; to compensate for wrong or loss. From Anglo-French redresser: to set upright, restore, set straight.

How the Rain Remembers by Shebana Coelho

February 20, 2020

My curls return in rain and in sudden wind. They returned that day, on the beach, standing beside a sand wall, scooped out by wind. We were on vacation, him from his regular self, and me from the self that pretended he was truly like this.

Mermaid IPA by Linzy Garcia

February 20, 2020

I remember even the most beautiful, mystical things still die.

Hard Salami by Kent Kosack

February 13, 2020

How am I supposed to know where here is? How does anyone?

A Brief Affair by Thomas Cardamone

February 13, 2020

Every weekday at four PM, a small piece of Paulita Paulo died and went to heaven.

Where I Was From by Steven Moore - Winner of the Bradley & Stucky-French Prize

February 12, 2020

I live in a college town in western Oregon and lately people here have been talking about their small-town Midwestern upbringing like it was a war they barely survived.

The Incomplete By Dylan McGonigle

February 11, 2020

It was at the end of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times that I'm pretty sure I heard Harris Mirkin crying.

Oops by Amelie Meltzer

February 10, 2020

A moment like / the moment when I accidentally chewed on my tongue / instead of food and realized / how powerful and dangerous I am

The Salesman by Terek Hopkins

February 6, 2020

In two days, Roger turns twenty-seven. But Roger doesn’t want to turn twenty-seven. He’s more afraid of it, of turning twenty-seven, than he’s ever been of anything in his whole life.

Ape Destiny by Ethan Chatagnier

February 6, 2020

I’m at the high school to meet with Derrick’s counselor. I don’t know I’m about to say those words, don’t know what they’ll mean. I’m even mistaken about why I’m meeting Mr. Crenshaw, but there he is, waving me into the library.

Roundtable Discussion: “Lessening our Existential Despair,” a Conversation with Fiction Writers, Emily Wortman-Wunder and Jennifer Wortman by Emily Sinclair

February 5, 2020

I read these stories as, in part, witnessing our current political, environmental, and cultural exigencies and the way they push on our interior lives and our relationships. Of course, it’s easy to read everything that way these days, given the lightspeed of our news cycles and the dire tones of our news.

Resolution (in Twelve) by N. H. Azmi

January 31, 2020

He was her first in a list of firsts: first kiss, even though that should have been in high school; first hook up although that should have been in college. He was a second or third love though, but the first to ever leave her imagination and take root in reality