Women have always had powerful stories to share. The everyday is their stage and they survive on a journey of emotional reconciliation within themselves, navigating both the society they live …
Forty Days and Forty Nights (Lindsey Danis)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel Forty days and forty nights: a biblical honeymoon for an interfaith queer couple. We begin in Bangkok on New Year’s Eve. Jetlag mixes with our hope …
Pike Position (Indigo Perry)
The wind scrapes ripples into the water’s surface and for an instant it has a pattern of corrugated iron like the roof of a house. Under full sun, the water …
My Mother (Taylor Croteau)
I am the same age my mother was when she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I am the same age my mother was the first time she tried to kill me. …
Afterburn (Kylie Hough)
Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne I lie on a queen mattress covered in red peonies in a darkened room, looking up at the still ceiling fan. I can make out three …
1,000 (Robin Gow)
I’ve done the math. 884 is the number of masses I attended between when I was born & when I was 17. If you think about holy days that’s at …
Stories Uncovered, Stories Untold (Wendy Chen)
Edited by Ramon Loyola Wenzhou, China — January 2017 Ye Ye, my paternal grandfather, sits silently in the living room, seemingly weighed down by multiple layers of thick jackets, wool and …
The Butcher in the Moonlight (Indigo Perry)
(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) The Butcher in the Moonlight It’s that time, long after midnight, long before morning, when it’s hard to wake the ones who sleep. Her little sister …
Gold Coast to Colombo Return (Emily Riches)
(edited by Kathryn Hummel) To be having an adventure / is a sign of incompetence. ~ Anne Carson Gold Coast to Colombo Just before we get on the plane, my …
The Tea Ceremony (Indigo Perry)
Once, after he’d confessed to another indiscretion, she got up and ran from the riverbank. When she reached the highway, she slowed down and walked, heartbeat steady by the time …