Celebrating Excellence: Our Best of the Net Award Nominees 22-23
Dear readers, It is with immense pride and excitement that we bring you this special announcement today. We are thrilled to share that...
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Bent from the Edges by Sarp Sozdinler
Lucy had a theory that we could measure the gravity of our traumas by simply cutting through our skin with a blunt knife and letting what...
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Hurricane Penelope by Timothy Boudreau
“It’s not coming anywhere near us; we’re too far north,” Penelope’s kids call to tell her. But driving through rain and wind, wine still...
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Road to Hana by Annie Marhefka
In a rented Jeep Wrangler, they drove Hawaii Highway 360, their matching herringbone suitcases in the back, wedding gifts that had seen a...
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Bermuda Gold by Travis Dahlke
Cath and I met as neighbors. We shared an estate of Bermuda grass that my husband mowed before an asthmatic death followed him to South...
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In the Blink of an Eye by Tom Finnegan
I learn fraught as fear and ought, like there’s something I ought to do, but it makes me afraid. I blink-around the gaze board and...
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Second Cousins by Ben Kline
I watched two drown in their preacher’s grip. Have you ever heard someone gasp back to life? Like gargling a scream. But Jesus crushed...
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Designing the Future: Chicago's Brandon Lamar Rials Blends the Cultures of Fashion and Motorsports
Brandon Lamar Rials, an auto designer turned graphic designer turned fashion designer turned entrepreneur, has embraced the nonlinear life
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In One Universe by K.D. Harryman
Your mother is still alive, leaving red lipstick on cloth napkins and collar points. Your sister hasn't stolen a thing. Your father picks...
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Bringing up the Nets by K.D. Harryman
Send your divers down to the green cold of childhood with their flippers and air tanks. Say Dredge it! and wait— What do nets hold? What...
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Glossary by K.D. Harryman
Clear, To: To remove kinks and snarls from a rope. Clue: A Thread which, if followed, leads to the solution of a problem. Give, To: To...
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Of Stolen Objects & Places by Jennifer Fliss
While scouring the map, he’d mutter in Yiddish, the language of dead Jews, the mother tongue of guttural mourning.
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The Lingering Effects of Flash Fiction: An Interview with Tommy Dean
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks, Special Like the People on TV (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ...
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A Change in View by Jacob Nantz
How Unconventional Venues Shed New Light—and New Meaning—on Old Loves At the end of June of this year, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis...
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A Review of Mandira Pattnaik’s Where We Set Our Easel by Dave Nash
From the beginning of her composition, Mandira Pattnaik sets the hue for Where We Set Our Easel when she writes, “In surreal vignettes,...
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The Unbearable Weight of Memory
A Review of Ingrid Rojas Contreras' The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Amy Scheiner Memoir is the recreation of memory on the page. In the...
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Good Life Better by Jacob Nantz
How Manchester’s Past Drives Its Output of Music, Football, and Joy There’s a fine line between using the past to validate the present...
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Pastoral by Roberta Beary
The boy carries his corgi down the stoop of our shared brownstone. His thick arms and delicate fingers were made for tasks like these. He...
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Taking Big Swings: An Interview with Darren C. Demaree
by Dave Nash I had the pleasure of reading Darren C. Demaree’s latest poetry collection, the luxury, in advance of our interview....
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Subterranean by Dana Cann
First it was Henry Stringfellow breaking and entering the Odoms’ basement. When Cheryl Odom returned home from her job at a medical...
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