by admin | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured, Fiction, Uncategorized |
Three Storiesby Leah Browning N.B.: We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. SCENTS Even after she died, there were certain smells that still made Jeanette recoil. A person’s scalp after a few days without a shower. A room with a bedpan. She had worked in a...
by admin | May 23, 2021 | Featured, Fiction, Uncategorized |
Excerpt: Writing with Blood by Catherine Bai N.B.: We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. 黄河 An American girl cannot hold down a conversation in Chinese, the characters wriggling like carp underneath her tongue, spilling out in imperfect dribbles before her lips...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Uncategorized |
The Prelude by Sarah Uheida N.B. We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. I have waited/ until I could not/ and then wandered into the cave of language/ left my skin outside and sank into a word/ that resembles living/ a word/ that looks like put that gun down/ a...
by admin | Apr 3, 2021 | Essay, Featured, Uncategorized |
Visiting Rena by Denise Tolan N.B.: We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. Each Thursday, the women made their pilgrimage to Rena. They carried offerings like salami or a new cheese, pictures of children or grandchildren, a letter from abroad or a recording of an...
by admin | Mar 21, 2021 | Essay, Featured, Uncategorized |
The Dirt on the Universe by Lisa López Smith N.B.: We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. The starlings, blackbirds, and turtle doves steal grain from the hens. I am the chief shit-sweeper of the hens every morning, amidst the frantic flutter of the wild birds...
by admin | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Uncategorized |
I've Named These Ashes by Yasmin Mariam Kloth N.B. We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.—Proverbs 17:22 Each year the bones of my ancestorsturn more brittle and gray.I think how so many must...
