THE CARRIAGE ROOM by Mary Ann McGuigan
September 20, 2023
He returned home silent, even more sullen. I asked him about Mrs. Marra once, but he looked at me as if all memories, good or bad, had been erased.
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JACKFRUIT by Gwen E. Kirby
September 13, 2023
Now that your precious jackfruit is out in the world, latch the angel onto your body and let nature take its course. She held her jackfruit to her breast, to her arms, her neck, rubbed it against herself until she was raw.
SWEETNESS by Tina Kimbrell
September 6, 2023
On the morning that she died, I don’t think I knew that it was the day that we would stop waiting. We were just going to her bedside, as we did. As we had done for days. Suspended in that grief fog, gritty and spinning.
IF SHE WERE AN ANIMAL by Cameron Darc
August 28, 2023
He fondles a piece of charcoal and looks at me before touching the paper. The line makes a limp imitation of a spine. A nose appears.
SMOKE AND FISH by Uyen P. Dang
August 21, 2023
At first everyone blamed the smoke on the war, then the steel plant, and, finally, the water. But Ong Hai says it’s not water but grief at the bottom of the sea.
HEARTLESS by Alex Sullivan
August 14, 2023
Those twins out of St. Paul are doing some live podcast tour about living without lungs but that’s easy, the no lungs thing.
CLAIM OF VALUABLES by Kristen Swan Morrison
August 7, 2023
You’re too busy thinking about the bag that held your common sense, dignity, and your partner’s trust in you, the bag that’s undoubtedly getting further away the longer you sit here.
LANGUAGE by Steve Gergley
July 31, 2023
His physique is quite distressing. It is not something I like to observe.
BEAR WITH A CHAINSAW by Joe Aguilar
July 17, 2023
Oh, the bear came with the house, I lied. The Lord hates a lying tongue, the pastor said.
JUST THE EDGES by Molly Wadzeck Kraus
July 10, 2023
Rolling down the window, I decipher through the breeze, Listen, I think we need to stop this. Hours ago, you had my breasts in your hands. OK, whatever, it’s fine, I said.