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Apocalypse Now by Dorothy Rice

August 16, 2022

the whites of his eyes wide like he didn’t know this helpless, fat, beetle-on-its-back, version of me.

More Like A Body Than a Person by Ashton Russell

August 16, 2022

Maybe a poet fell in love with her when she wasn’t ready, he wrote her a letter and sent her pressed flowers from his garden.

Morning Death by Chamomile Wheatley

August 16, 2022

Death in her evening moccasins will find us the way a river finds the estuary.

Where by Jessica Manack

August 16, 2022

And there, in the underpass that’s always flooded, we joined our puzzle-piece teeth. We ignored the graffiti.

Inheritance by Willie James

August 16, 2022

My sister and I are beginning to inherit the lightning blond crabgrasses and balding planes of our father and mother’s wealth.

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.