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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

Poetry
Carla Moves about the Yard by Isa Pickett
March 14, 2023
The milk at the grocery store gets lonely when the clerk drives home A deer waits for his car
Poetry  / The Weekly
It Wants A Church Bell by Isa Pickett
December 6, 2022
The leaves had been making their own shapes for months
Book Reviews  / Non-Fiction
What Victory Living: A Review of Darren C. Demaree’s clawing at the grounded moon by Isa Pickett
August 18, 2022
Urgency and Catastrophe: Darren C. Demaree's "Clawing at the Grounded Moon" explores an altered world grappling with the collapse of the moon.
Poetry
Your Dog Shakes a Bird to Death by Isa Pickett
April 15, 2021
This lake used to be a valley until they blocked up some poor river.