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Lost and Found, fiction by Benjamin Soileau
I was drinking beer and washing the dishes that had piled up all week. I figured it would give me something to do to take my mind off of things. There I was, scrubbing and scraping away. I was washing … Continue reading
Small Things, fiction by Eric Boyd
Eric Boyd was born in North Carolina, attended some school at the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pa. A winner of the Pen American Center's 2012 Prison Writing Contest, Boyd has had work … Continue reading
A Brutal Act of Ketchup, fiction by Gary Clifton
Hadn't oughta been no damned trouble at all, 'cuz wasn't me did anything wrong — well not exactly. I'm a falsely accused man. Then I got this call today. The FBI was lookin' for me…some crap about interstate travel to … Continue reading
Coming Home, poem by Teisha Twomey
I reach below the sink, compare the proofs of the bottles beneath. Eighty is best and I pour the glass half full, watching the diet Coke turn gold, beautiful as amber. I climb the stairs the way I am use to, as … Continue reading
Sugar, fiction by Misty Skaggs
On a hilltop faraway, in another time, I had a pony. Papaw tethered her to one of the tall, thin maple trees situated in the dead center of the bright, green acre of clover we called the front yard. And … Continue reading
First Aid, fiction by Ellis Purdie
The front fairing and headlight of the Yamaha were torn off and cracked, its windshield splintered and electric green paint scuffed in patches not unlike the road burns on Jesse, his son. The front wheel was bent, kicked out. “Not … Continue reading
Old Ironhead, novel excerpt from Mark Powell
The child died in a sunlit market. The child died in a Vegas ring. Still, the years came and went. Wars and rumors of war. A decade of erosion that ended with morning. Maybe half past four and a taste … Continue reading
Squirrels in the Attic, fiction by CL Bledsoe
Everyone in the house knew they were squirrels, except KT, who was sure with the conviction of an irrational mind further tainted from years of heavy drug use, that there were people – little people – living in the attic. … Continue reading
The Bitter End, poem by Mike Lafontaine
Your teeth are crooked she said – they shoot out at awkward angles – just like you she figured me out fast I have lots of nervous energy I can be intense that’s okay she said I like that in time she did not I … Continue reading
Our Lady of the Rockies, fiction by Eric Bosse
I meet a girl and her father on the crest of a hill. She waves as the dog and I climb, and the dog bolts so fast I think he might hit the hilltop and keep running into the clouds … Continue reading
