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    Our Bodies and All Their Limitations by Melissa Darcey Hall
    • 9 min

    Our Bodies and All Their Limitations by Melissa Darcey Hall

    We discover our ghost selves one Saturday night while sneaking sips of tart-as-cherry pinot noir, the bottle stolen from Renata’s...
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    The Castaway by K. Albasi
    • 8 min

    The Castaway by K. Albasi

    Whenever that question, “where’re ya from,” invariably arose among the transients and tourists alike thrust together in the service...
    135 views
    What Does Wind Think of the Tents on North 7th? by Ed Falco
    • 17 min

    What Does Wind Think of the Tents on North 7th? by Ed Falco

    Matthew may have been near ignorant when it came to sailing, but it didn’t take a yachtsman to figure out he had forgotten the part where...
    178 views
    Postcards From Reno by Annie Berke
    • 4 min

    Postcards From Reno by Annie Berke

    From the 1930s to the 1960s, Reno, Nevada was America’s Divorce Capital. A married person could set up temporary residence at a boarding...
    380 views
    I Take Off My Clothes for the First Time by Eric Scot Tryon
    • 3 min

    I Take Off My Clothes for the First Time by Eric Scot Tryon

    I take off my clothes in front of other guys for the first time on a Tuesday afternoon. 7th grade PE—Mission Bay Middle School. Coach...
    840 views
    Basketball by Mary Liza Hartong
    • 2 min

    Basketball by Mary Liza Hartong

    The basketball jersey we wore had always been blue with white numbers. Passed down from grade to grade, it was a blissfully baggy rag we...
    115 views
    empty space by Rebecca Suzuki
    • 3 min

    empty space by Rebecca Suzuki

    We are in the apartment filled with his things, the things I helped him move from his old apartment just a year ago. We’d parked the...
    137 views
    Bones of You by Kim Steutermann Rogers
    • 2 min

    Bones of You by Kim Steutermann Rogers

    Another night you can’t sleep, the hot flashes coming faster than the passes your husband made during the days of your courtship. But you...
    123 views
    Azul by Kate Gray
    • 4 min

    Azul by Kate Gray

    What you didn’t say snapped like a rubber band to the wrist. You loved silence, and all I wanted was the salt of your voice. Maybe it was...
    333 views
    Latchkey Playmate by China Adams
    • 1 min

    Latchkey Playmate by China Adams

    We were orphaned to your mother’s pork bao buns, your brothers’ cock fights & tattered metallic costumes stuffed loveless in rattan...
    311 views
    Sacha by Bryan Betancur
    • 10 min

    Sacha by Bryan Betancur

    I’m not a violent person, OK? It was too much to process, that’s all. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I felt betrayed. And I lashed out...
    135 views
    Carla Moves About the Yard by Ike Pickett
    • 1 min

    Carla Moves About the Yard by Ike Pickett

    Ike Pickett is a writer, musician, and library volunteer. They currently work in early literacy and urban greening. In 2021, they made...
    381 views
    Portrait of a Boy by Hassan Usman
    • 1 min

    Portrait of a Boy by Hassan Usman

    A boy’s body is a graveyard carrying so many coffins, so many scattered bullets, so many funeral songs. The society is a gun & his...
    242 views
    An Etymology of Loss by Terri Linn Davis
    • 1 min

    An Etymology of Loss by Terri Linn Davis

    Loss— is a hungry word opening up its mouth wide enough to fit a gold ring, a child’s casket. A language, this is the noun of measures:...
    253 views
    The Nature of Things by Matthew Valades
    • 1 min

    The Nature of Things by Matthew Valades

    Matthew Valades has had poems published in Subtropics, The Moth, New Ohio Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Shore, Indianapolis Review, and...
    239 views
    human hours by John Sibley Williams
    • 2 min

    human hours by John Sibley Williams

    another lung collapses : soot blackens an already un- lit interior : somewhere between flight & fall a man i’ll eventually resemble once...
    198 views
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