By Caressa Layne / Fiction /   Turning a light on by the bedside, Etta found her housecoat and shoved one arm through, then the...

By Pam Clements / Flash /   Crushed oyster shells, attractive crunchy walking paths, exist all over the South Carolina lowcountry. ...

By Patricia Gray / Poetry /   In Ethiopia we have seen many eclipses.  We just heat glass until it is smoked and look through it at...

By Gale Huxley / Fiction / Elaine was found in the city woods, where a few too many walked. Her eyes had been half-digested in a...

By Peggy L. Shrum / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / A tree just fell. It must have been really close by; I startled...

By Cindy Dean Jones / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / And on a day when I most desperately needed hope, when the...

Sans Souci, Trinidad By Ivy Raff / Poetry / Terrible as she is turquoise, the sea chops, roars, wakes shock of forest-clothed hills,...

By Kay Parke / Poetry / The sweetness of a summer peach on the tongue, daylily’s orange bloom lasts a single sun’s round, day’s crimson...

By Jonathan Chan / Poetry / “I needed unerased paper, transparent faith. That’s how that day went for me.” - Shin Hae Uk, trans....

by JoAnn Zhang / Poetry / A thick blue knit tucks over the edge, over and over some massless thing the fishermen cannot see. They go by...

by Mark Belair / Poetry / A dark cloud cover broods by hauling a hole above which a darker, yet colder cloud cover holds. * Ice cubes,...

by Gail Nielsen / Poetry / I once threw caution to the wind but the direction changed, and it was snagged by the branch of an aspen at...

by Iris Litt / Poetry / It tried to die with my mother whether from neglect or empathy we’ll never know. My son the gardener and...

by Eric Machan Howd / Poetry / We creep slowly outside hands full of apples beyond crispness - a venture for good we see as salvation....

by Kay Parke / Poetry / Stunned by the moment, by the sunrise light golden in my studio, shining through even the leaves of the plants on...