1 minJones - Happy Birthdaywake from summer’s sleep to rosehip frost and cold blue skies shirt cuffs stained with linseed oil door frame swollen in overnight rain...
1 minIn this short life that lasts more than an hour by Maria Castro DomínguezI’ll stop listening to the news, instead listen to the birds, their wings and the wind and how it edges doors open. I’ll wake up at dawn...
1 minHope Unplumed by Maria Castro DomínguezI lost you but found you. Hope. I hope you’re much better. I hope you know who I am. I hope I’ll be a better stranger, lover, daughter,...
7 minReview: Ursula Lake. "A Joyful Spot on the Fishing Trip of a Lifetime" by David Nash Can a smile cast with sincerity be anything but good? That’s one of the many questions Charles Harper Webb poses in his novel, Ursula...
3 minIf Moons Collide by Tommy DeanMia flicked the cigarette butt into the air, burning end, a cancerous firefly, drunk on the night air. The boy, four years younger, and...
3 minOh, You’re a Mean Old Daddy, but You’re Out of Sight A Review of Jayne Martin's The Daddy Chronicles. By Dave Nash “Memory is like shards of glass from a broken mirror where pieces have gone...
2 minDear Child: An Explanation of Why I Never Had You by Tresha Faye HaefnerThe truth is, you were better in the imagination. Staring out a window watching snow fall into caverns. The truth is I never wanted this...
1 minWhat Is It to be Sick by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh ChadwickLeigh Chadwick thinks bed is good. She says, Bed is where people should be when they should be in bed. Adrienne Barrios tries to nod with...
2 minMaybe This Is Something After All by Adrienne Marie Barrios and Leigh ChadwickLeigh Chadwick listens to “Step” by Vampire Weekend while driving to the Orange Hat. She’s two miles south of Clinch River when she sees...
4 minShepherd's Pie by Sophie Develyn1 tbsp oil 1 large onion 4 cloves garlic 2-3 medium carrots 1 turnip, elderly 500g pack lamb mince large splash Worcester sauce 2 tins of...
3 minCompassionate Humor: On John Weir's "Your Nostalgia is Killing Me"By Jessica Willingham John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a...
3 minThere is News Along The Ohio River, IV-VIII by Beth GilstrapYou have come to call her Mama, this water. Today she is high and rising still, ornery in the midday sun, carrying trees that stood tall...
1 minMadeline Anthes, Our 2022 Spring Flash Fiction Prize Guest Judge The Five South Prize in Short Fiction celebrates both emerging and established talent. This year's prize is judged by Madeline Anthes....
3 minThe Things We Found in Your Purse by Cathy UlrichA book called “Conversational Korean,” pages dog-eared and worn, and we wondered if you would have insisted that your friends call you...
1 minThe Home Is Six Hens Which Never Lay Eggs by Alina StefanescuThe home is those animals who eat and keep trying. Two parents, a little sister, the trusted friendship of crimson azaleas. The hearth is...
2 minThis Is How You Groom a Dog by Shaindel Beers 1. The woman looks ridiculous with opera gloves and sunglasses on indoors. She makes a kissing noise to a tiny, ghost-white schnauzer...
1 minSpace Race by Warren WoessnerWhen John and I tried to make rocket fuel in my basement lab, we ground up sodium chlorate and sugar, and it blew up. Pieces of the glass...
1 minIn the Belly of California's Central Valley by Cecil MorrisIn the flat and dusty nowhere between two glorious somewheres, dust lacquered our shoes, conditioned our hair, desiccated the skin we...
9 minOur Bodies and All Their Limitations by Melissa Darcey HallWe discover our ghost selves one Saturday night while sneaking sips of tart-as-cherry pinot noir, the bottle stolen from Renata’s...
8 minThe Castaway by K. AlbasiWhenever that question, “where’re ya from,” invariably arose among the transients and tourists alike thrust together in the service...