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Daddy Asks if You Want a Pink or Red Swiss Army Knife by Brianna Corley

February 21, 2023

In the South, you are given your first knife when you still have to climb the cabinet tops to reach the mason jars filled with your mawmaw’s mayhaw jelly.

Peach Pie by Emily Ross

February 14, 2023

I brought you a peach pie, just for old times.

The Water, The Drought by Monica Fuglei

February 7, 2023

I carried it so much its weight was a small worry stone in my pocket.

Bussing (Ascension) by Jen Knox

February 1, 2023

Our kiss solidified me as part of the team, but her gaze stole something from me that wasn’t quite my heart.

You Are a Spider by T.C. Kemper

January 31, 2023

When morning comes, you clap your pedipalps in satisfaction and wait for admiration of your latest debut.

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.