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    • Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
      Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
    • Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
    • Saturation by Claire Oleson
      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

Blog Archives

Book Reviews  / Non-Fiction
A Review of Joan Kwon Glass’ Night Swim by Terri Linn Davis
November 14, 2022
The Ashes Cling to Everything": A Powerful Exploration of Grief and Healing in Joan Kwon Glass's "Night Swim"
Fiction  / The Weekly
The Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy Ulrich
April 5, 2022
Was she smiling because she was happy or did someone tell her to wait for the flash, to stay still and pretty and small?
Poetry
We Can Learn From This, You Know by Jacob Nantz
September 6, 2020
We all have vices, & who’s to say whose are worse if we’re all buried in the end?