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Anna Schachner
One Day I Will Marry a Tree
By Anna Schachner / Flash / 1. The weeping willow tree in our front yard was a neighborhood landmark and jungle gym, although I thought...
Patricia McGuire-Hughes
I Wish I Could Tell You
By Patricia McGuire-Hughes / Nonfiction / *for Grandma Mac A month after Grandma died, her voice visited me for the...
Caressa Layne
The Calf
By Caressa Layne / Fiction / Turning a light on by the bedside, Etta found her housecoat and shoved one arm through, then the...
Claire Olivares
Dangerous Substance
By Clare Olivares / Flash / "Why do you have so many pill bottles in your baggage? Do you need these in your carry on?" Well yes...
Shelagh Powers Johnson
Bound
By Shelagh Powers Johnson / Fiction / In her more brutal moments, Maeve would say that the wrong child had survived: when the...
Pam Clements
Oyster Shells
By Pam Clements / Flash / Crushed oyster shells, attractive crunchy walking paths, exist all over the South Carolina lowcountry. ...
Patricia Gray
What the Cab Driver Said
By Patricia Gray / Poetry / In Ethiopia we have seen many eclipses. We just heat glass until it is smoked and look through it at...
Kenley Ellis
Silent Summer
By Kenley Ellis / Nonfiction / The story of my grandmother did not always make peoples’ eyes wrinkle in pity. It was one just like...
Kristel Chua
Maid and Manananggal
By Kristel Chua / Fiction / In the rearview mirror, Yakima valley resembled a bowl of milk. Clouds swirled in ominous slow-motion,...
Crystal Rivera
Sugar Bloom & Smudge
By Crystal Rivera / Poetry / What bloomed from grief came instinct, came wrath. The...
Maggie Riggs
The Snake
By Maggie Riggs / Fiction / Michael watched his shoes toss shadows down on the dry brown grass beneath the swing set in the...
Jordan Nishkian
Cooped Up
By Jordan Nishkian / Flash / “I have a plan to get the new hen to start laying eggs,” Eddie said, interrupting Ada’s assigned reading...
Ines Rodrigues
Portraits
By Ines Rodrigues / Fiction / “…for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.” James Baldwin (“Giovanni’s Room”) ...
Marla Braverman
This is How the World Ends
By Marla Braverman / Fiction / “… papers that Israeli officials say were recovered from Hamas command centers show advanced...
Cindy Sams
The Bitterness of Blood
By Cindy Sams / Nonfiction / There must have been so much blood. On the floor, on the counter, on nineteen-year-old Patricia...
Xi Chen
John Ashbery’s Racist Poem
By Xi Chen / Poetry / There is nothing about John Ashbery’s racist poem sadder than the poem trying to cancel it by the student who...
Robin Greene
Truth
By Robin Greene / Poetry / Driving our ‘55 Chevy, my mom sings Sinatra while I sit beside to her, peering at Cunningham Park as...
Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈
도장
* A stone or wooden seal to sign one's name, used in Korea since the 2nd century B.C. By Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 / Poetry /
Cortney Esco
Grocery List for Mom
By Cortney Esco / Poetry / We’re out of eggs, and while I've got you, I'm sorry about that time I made you cry in the kitchen....
Iris Harris
Matching My Reflection
By Iris Harris / Flash / Terrance stands in front of the mirror, averting his eye from the disdainful reflection of four decades. Long,...
No.17: The Portraits
No.16: The Light
No.15: The Hours
No.14: The Prizes II
No.13: The Dance
No.12: The Clarity
No.11: The Hourglass
No.10: The Prizes
No.9: The Bond
No.8: The Door
No.7: The Years
No.6: The Vision
No.5: The Lake
No.4: The Bridge
No.3: The Montage
No.2: The Warrior
No.1: The Guesthouse
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