Save Me by Laura Shaine Cunningham The day that we moved in, the man who lived alone in 7A, who would have been our immediate neighbor, jumped from his balcony balustrade. Kit and I, carrying small, breakable objects that Kit refused to entrust to the movers, were...
As Simple As A Wish by Rebecca Pyle There was no problem at all, he said. Because he had studied at the institute with a person of the highest and most exacting reputation in his field, someone who had suffered great deprivations and traveled great distances to extend...
Spawn by Heather Durham Few phenomena are as mesmerizing as a spawning salmon holding steady in a stream. Fire maybe—the liquid undulations of flames in air. But unlike combustion, that chemical conversation between heat and fuel, salmon’s communion with water is...
Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) + Love Notes to his Dead Wife by Kari Despain Blood, I Wonder (a sonnet) Plane lands. Vegas, and like always, a setof girls dance on the escalator. Boysclaim what they’ll drink, hail an Uber through sweatstench, cologne, cigarettes, fried...
Burdens of Mortality by Jeneva Stone —Lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia (Aeneid) Down the gray channel of highway, flecked by endless whitedashes, above me drowned in daylight may be stars. I’vebeen crying for no reason again, not even for the diminutionof...
