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An Origin is a Point Among Other Coordinates by Marisa Lin

November 13, 2023

Like her, he yearned for a planet beyond this wasteland . . .

Open Gate by Melissa Fitzpatrick

November 9, 2023

I tell her David lives in Seattle with his husband. I don’t tell her that it’s been almost a year since David has spoken to me.

Summer of Love by Jeff Harvey

November 7, 2023

We slow-danced as he hummed a Dylan tune, the one about having God on our side. Johnny’s body was soothing like a Sunday morning.

Subterranean by T. De Los Reyes

November 7, 2023

I fall behind to capture what remains of the sunlight.

Line by Nicholas Molbert

November 6, 2023

I am eight again, alone with nobody but my father and a dinner's-worth of trout stiff-spined in the ice chest.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
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.
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.