PARALLAX: Does It Hurt? By Nate Haken
“You have to be aggressive, man,” Pedro said. “Especially with the old ladies. They’ll talk and talk and never say a thing.”
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Fiction: I Play Per the Small Child’s Instruction by Kelly Dulaney
Now we’ll grow gills, the small child says. We feel for our earlobes and pull them into new shapes.
Essay; My Marching Band by Michael Royce
Causes, in many ways, similar to those that felled the young men I knew: jungle rot, youthful folly, despair, and gunfire.
Flash Fiction: A Three-Step Manual for Living by Michael Blackburn
First, two to five (never all, never none) of the ant’s legs fly off from its thorax and abdomen.
Failing Better: An Interview with John McNally by Curtis Smith
Everything I write is part of a life-long continuum of work that informs each other, and if I look at something I’m working now, I’ll see its origin in something I was thinking about maybe twenty or thirty years ago.
Flash Fiction: Surface Tension by Thea Boodhoo
Holding onto something that burns her is a skill of will that will stay with her for decades, maybe her whole life. But she doesn’t know that yet.
Fiction: About As Fun As No Fun At All by M. S. Coe
This island is not what a typical person would think when you say Island for this island is man-made in its entirety.
Flash Fiction: I Know I Owe You Something by Jason Peck
I already know the order from the other night. A wrap, veggie. Fries on the side. The two gin and tonics I made disappear.
Review: TO TRACY LIKE/TO LIKE/LIKE by Tracy Dimond (reviewed by P.J. Dominiski)
TO TRACY LIKE/TO LIKE/LIKE is a peculiar and personal meditation that sets its sights on the external colossus of a patriarchy in a way that is both politically charged and fun to read
Accepting Applications for The Woods II: A Writer’s Retreat
Writers & Words and Ink Press Productions are accepting applications for The Woods, a writing retreat in the lovely Cacapon State Park, West Virginia, from December 6 – December 9, 2018. If you’re […]
