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Monthly Archives: May 2016
The Silence of January, fiction by Frank Reardon
Before Arnie Sandlin could drop a fistful of ice melt outside the doorway of The Ranger Lounge, his stomach exploded and he was thrown five feet across the room into a poker table. Dutchie Selby stepped into the lounge, ice … Continue reading
Earlene and the Witch, fiction by Misty Skaggs
Ivy swaddled the sapling oak in the tattered remains of a patchwork quilt that got washed one too many times. The stuffing seeped out and clung to the young branches in worn white puffs, like tired clouds. She was careful … Continue reading
Down by The River, poem by Charles Swanson
(A poetic comment on Breece D’J Pancake’s short story “A Room Forever”) Between cold buildings, out to the slate gray river a view as flat as old year’s end. A room, a room forever, not because of heaven— instead because of death. … Continue reading
Tsunami, poem by Melissa Helton
My entire nation pitches forward, ocean water turned violent. It was a slow rise that we couldn’t detect in the open sea. But now we can see it, an airless wall at crest peak, that moment of full lungs ceasing to breathe … Continue reading
Of My Great Uncle, poem by Amanda Kelley
Now that you are gone what I remember most is the size of your hands—as big as oven mitts I see them wrapped around a hoe handle, then imagine them in boxing gloves when you were young: The sound of the bell and your … Continue reading
Trinity Ridge Zoological, poem by Todd Mercer
The Holy Roller Church of Serpents is set in a notch of a steep knob. You cross a rope-bridge to get there, remove your thinking cap to roll with the irrational spectacle when Reverend Righteous taunts the snakes, tests his faith … Continue reading
Two Poems by Tim Peeler
Rougher Beast I took my training from daddy, Drunken waking me at three am With a belt buckle across my legs. First three or four licks left red welts; Then I numbed and hardened, Never giving in when he screamed Cry you little bastard, cry, … Continue reading
Cheaha, fiction by A.M. Garner
THE MAN WHO LOANS TOOLS IS OUT. The hand-lettered sign hung dead center of the rear wall of the cement block garage. Lendon Philpot—the man who didn’t loan out his tools—leaned over the motor of a red ’67 Ford Galaxie, … Continue reading
Ghoul, fiction by Corey Mesler
It was a folk tale, an urban legend. That’s what we told ourselves though it was scant comfort. I think I heard it first from my older brother’s friends on a night I was supposed to be asleep but, instead, … Continue reading
Making Ends Meet, poem by Teisha Dawn Twomey
A good rule of thumb, is to pull the fine thread through a length twice the stretch. Wind the string in a semi-circle to make a loop, pull the ends through, tie the split twin tails taut together knotted twice or … Continue reading
