Poetry: Blister Beetles by Scott T. Hutchison
A scientist would tell you: toxicity tends
to relax the proper function of muscles.
Welcome Our Newest Associate Flash Fiction Editor, Lori D’Angelo
We’re excited to welcome Lori D’Angelo as an Associate Flash Fiction Editor for jmww!
Flash Fiction: Arm Wrestling at In N Out by Robert Nazar Arjoyan
Those arm wrestlers kept at it, a man winning and a man losing, because somebody always won, and somebody always lost.
Excerpt: THERE ARE PLACES THAT WILL FILL YOU UP by Tara Isabel Zambrano
She looks every bit human: unsure, full of enthusiasm, hungry for love, the corners of her mouth twitching as if she’s about to say something but doesn’t.
In Conversation: The Magic of Reality: A Conversation Between Brittney Corrigan and Cameron Walker
Once I stopped pretending and started talking more about my fiction, I realized a lot of those science journalists I look up to as being so science-y also have these other interests, whether it’s painting or fiction or something else. So maybe it didn’t have to be a secret all those years!
Excerpts from Faraway Tables by Eric D. Goodman
Some winter days find you
trying on a new coat of ice,
Flash Fiction: The Locket by Charlene Logan
It’s a kind of locket, and inside the locket is a little domed window, and inside that is a little velvet pillow, so tiny, a bug could barely get its head comfortable.
Fiction: A Few Things by Jeanne-Marie Fleming
Maureen pressed her face into her doll’s belly and wished for quiet. She wanted God to take her back just one day.
Fiction: Lollipop Kiss and We Might’ve Been Kings by Avitus B. Carle
Before I begin my family history presentation, I let my classmates know I’m Black.
Creative Nonfiction: The Improbability of Fossils by Callie Dean
Between my daily commute to the office and my endless parental chauffeur duties—to school, church, piano lessons, and t-ball practices—I burn through fossil fuels at an alarming rate.
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