Fur Trade by Margo McCall
The breeze carried a taste of prairie winter the first time Mark and Sofia passed the business with barred windows [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
Not Yet; My 'round Town (chemo) Toddle by KC Hill
An old friend
shines down on my shoulders
soothing
pecking light on my cheek
warm kisses [...]
Gods of Time by Luke Beling
Drea tip-toed onto the overlook. The clouds moved like ghosts. She stared at the violent water of Dragon River [...]
Cautionary Tale; Gold Ribbon by Susan Richardson
I was once a damsel in a dress,
a sparkle in an eye that never blinked,
a master of incarcerating bitterness
on the back of my tongue [...]
Blackout by Zach Murphy
My roommate took off right before I lost my job at the pizza place. The only thing he left behind was a note [...]
Seven-Years-Old; The Day I Learned...; Boy A and Boy B; Out Of the Fire; Monsters by Steve Denehan
Today was the day that she said
Daddy, you won’t know the age that I die at [...]
Lamentations Of A Farmer by Steven Baird
When the derecho winds arrived Friday, they lifted the split-rail fences, tore up most of the barn roof, uprooted the vegetable garden [...]
Good Morning; A Process Document Re: Life by CL Bledsoe
You text me good morning at midnight. When I wake,
I write all the ways to tear down
the world with you [...]
My Students Organized A Sit-In Protest Against Me by Bojana Stojcic
but I can’t think about it now coz
the sun is shining like a well-polished shoe and
life assumes a different rhythm on the weekend [...]
Trinket Troll by Dave Cline
Squiccus hums in low, rhythmic tones and the chipmunk’s breathing slows. With gnarled hands, Squiccus pets the disheveled fur [...]
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