Backstory: Issue 4 Art by Dave Gregory
Conservative estimate: I have some 30,000 photos from my days as a tour manager for a major cruise line. Combing them for images to...
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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
Whenever that question, “where’re ya from,” invariably arose among the transients and tourists alike thrust together in the service...
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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...
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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...
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I Take Off My Clothes for the First Time by Eric Scot Tryon
Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 I take off my clothes in front of other guys for the first time on a Tuesday afternoon. 7th grade...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Carla Moves About the Yard by Isa Pickett
Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 Isa Pickett is a writer, musician, and library volunteer. They currently work in early literacy and...
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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...
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An Etymology of Loss by Terri Linn Davis
Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 Loss— is a hungry word opening up its mouth wide enough to fit a gold ring, a child’s casket. A...
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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...
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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...
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