Shortlist Saturdays: Dead Crow Walking by Emily De Angelis
Why do crows walk off asphalt when they can fly
away from carrion
and car
to road’s edge?
Is it just corvid attitude [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
Danger Noodle by Melissa Ridley Elmes
What at first appeared to be a thick green vine clinging to the trunk of the ancient tree past which she was walking [...]
Rusty by Richard Krause
When at first Rusty the Poodle got hit with a golf ball, everyone ran up wobbly to him [...]
Klarkie's Christmas by Ernest Youhouse
Of all the characters that inhabit my childhood memories, few have reached the prominence of Klark Lionel Elyon Gold. He was mute [...]
My Dreams Write Me Too; Break A Leg by Hibah Shabkhez
Each stone of these stairs rasps like a regret,
Like the memory of a child's flushed face
Clouding with hurt, [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Deer King by Christina Hennemann
I cross the bridge and find you
soaked in dew, overlooking the clearing.
Doe eyes and roots crowning your antlers,
you wait for me [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Onesie by JP Relph
She’s trapped in a crush of clothes at the front of the thrift store -“JUST IN!”, like snippets of breaking news. [...]
Take Me Out by William Falo
My boyfriend Kyle and I were big fans of horror movies. So, when my parents went to Italy for two weeks, I was in my glory [...]
The Favour; What Is Happiness by Royden V Chan
She had over-slept. There was no time to make her usual
breakfast — she would be late for work [...]
Cold Fire by Melissa Pleckham
The first time Bridget saw the flames flicker to life on the far dark shore of the lake that bordered her home, Hagan had already been [...]
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