(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) When she sees people working, she feels like an asshole. She thinks of the construction workers and how hard their job is, but …
Lucilia Cuprina — an Ode (SB Wright)
first beat of spring careening down chimney full bore into wall, window pane, again again. daylight moth snared by sun – carry on in vain til spent; flaring, failing filament …
Unburied (Lauren Butterworth)
The Unburied climbs from her grave and all the little pieces of her fit like unshattering glass. The femurs groan into the sockets of the hip, the ribs crack into …
Paddle Boats (Katelin Farnsworth)
(edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) We sat in a paddle boat and ate cheese sandwiches. The water swirled slowly around us. This is nice, you said, and it was nice. The …
manifest (Melinda Smith)
If you must make me, draw me forth through that needle’s eye have a care for this raw skin what abrades it, how it may be sliced and sutured I …
The Olive Pit (Lucas Smith)
When Janice agreed to marry me ten years ago, her one condition was that I give up active duty and take a desk job. At the time I was one …
Irradiate Me (Bruce Saunders)
(edited by Tim Heffernan & Alise Blayney) 20:20 My world is controlled By numbers I see them everywhere Like some numerologist Or lost mathematician Descartes with his planar thought I’m …
Forecast (Jamie Alcock)
I am under the silence of a silent migraine yet before me are seas of blessed days. click. In the future eagles nest in cardboard boxes and women …
Digesting Grief: Krissy Kneen’s Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle
(edited by Robyn Cadwallader) In Krissy Kneen’s 2009 memoir Affection, her grandmother Dragitsa Marusic (aka Lotty Kneen) was introduced as the family’s best storyteller, and as a person who did …
Rabbit on the Promenade (Ariel Riveros Pavez)
Rabbit on the Promenade in homage to JS Harry Umwelt of responses and in the substrates below a silt of muted action. There are inaudible gasps bouncing in echo chambers …