Essay: Sorrow for the Wings by Shawn McClure
I saw the dream hens waking and stretching their wings, remembering the sky.
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Essay: But It Is Dark by Jennifer Fliss
“If I fly far enough, the blue lights will engulf me and carry me up.”
Nonfiction: Things I Wish I’d Bought by Emma Sloley
Each excavation into a lost object revealed a hidden truth—a genuine regret. But it also threw into relief how lucky I have been, to have accumulated these regrets, and survived them.
Nonfiction: Systole, Diastole by Darlene Young
I see that my own fears, like a misdirecting valve in the heart, can interfere with tenderness.
Nonfiction: Round Down by Alle C. Hall
I wasn’t a cheater. A cheater was something more solid. I accepted the preferred reality as truth. Then, I forgot about it. I mean, genuinely forgot.
Nonfiction: Everything You Left Behind by Marlene Olin
Like Kafka’s cockroaches, the Styrofoam head lives forever. Only we disintegrate to dust.
Nonfiction: In the Way Back, 1985-1995 by Beth Gilstrap
I wonder about the limp in my head, how long it’s been visible.
Nonfiction: La Modification by Scott Dominic Carpenter
Paris changes, poet Charles Baudelaire wrote, faster than the human heart, and as far as my neighborhood is concerned, he was right. We’d hardly settled into our new digs before people starting tearing things up.
Essay: Invasive/Invading by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
A painting supposedly produced before 1945 that contains traces of strontium-90 and caesium-137 is most likely a forgery: these isotopes do not occur naturally and are produced in nuclear explosions, […]
Essay: An Exquisite Harmony by Chris Carbaugh
“We should always have a goal of maintaining harmony.”
