Four Poems
Poetry Rachel Barenblat Photo Credit: Javier Kohen First Night in Buenos Aires Old political cartoons punctuate the pink walls. Our waiter wears black tie, brings out dish after dish: steaks the size...
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Poetry Doug Bolling Photo Credit: Sue Langford Rain Diary The days we two collected like smooth pebbles on beaches of childhood. How, now, Joanna, they slide away in the rain of your departure. The...
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Poetry Cynthia Sharp Photo Credit: Nikolai Vassiliev The Summer We Never Had In the summer we never had there is time for endless evenings of coffee and poetry conversation amid the spark of fireflies...
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Fiction James Dante Photo Credit: redslmdr While making lunch for Jae-Min’s children, I had the portable Samsung TV on top of the kitchen counter. That day Armed Forces Korea Network had devoted most...
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Fiction Ryan N. Hejmanowski Photo Credit: David Hawkins-Weeks The bench overlooked a corner of Bradenton that was well populated but not very often viewed from that vantage point. The ledge was there...
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Fiction Amber Kelly-Anderson Photo Credit: Sebastien Batardy “I suppose there is something of meanness in most people,” the grandmother said, her hands, brown speckled canyons of blue and white,...
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Fiction Anthony Marshall Photo Credit: Alexa Avitto Chicago seems like the center of the universe when you’re nineteen and don’t even make your bed in the mornings. For the longest time I never wanted...
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Fiction Don Smith Photo Credit: Lori E. Burleson Death comes sure as Sunday, he thought. It comes inch by cold inch till it has taken the exact measurement of your life. He had not expected it so soon,...
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Fiction Stacey Spencer Photo Credit: Kathryn Harper My cell phone is nestled inside my knit purse, the purse I picked out because it was like one another woman might wear on summer vacation, sitting on...
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Fiction John Young Photo Credit: omefrans In front of their row house was the big road. Not far beyond that and to the left were the hospital and the water. Behind his house was the whole neighborhood...
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Baker’s Pick A. Gonzaga Photo Credit: Frikjan Five months into his doomed relationship with her, Winfred could not pronounce Anna’s name properly. Before he began dating her, he had been exposed to...
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A Midsummer Tale ~ First Place Laura Story Johnson Photo Credit: Laura Story Johnson When their family finally got off Ellis Island, my great-great-grandfather purchased his five daughters and one son...
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A Midsummer Tale ~ Second Place Amy Gantt Photo Credit: Amy Gantt In the spring of 1992, when I was seventeen years old, I got out the purple pen I’d bought myself with the money I earned cleaning the...
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A Midsummer Tale ~ Third Place Anna Shuster Photo Credit: Anna Shuster A warm August wind followed me down the street to the mailbox, playing with the corners of the envelope in my hand. Inside that...
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Candle-Ends: Reviews Erin Bellavia I’m going to start this review with a confession: I don’t think I’m very good at writing reviews. When I love things, I love them. I loave them. I lurve them. And...
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The Snark Zone:Letters from the Editors Theryn “Beaver” Fleming Photo Credit: Theryn Fleming Celebrate (verb): to observe a notable occasion with festivities This issue, I could have chosen to write...
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