Fiction

Issue 9
The Road to Carville

by Pat Tompkins.
“It was a shame anyone had to go to Carville, a pity there was no cure, but Gar had been to war and knew how little fairness had to do with anything.”

Issue 36 2019 Prize Winners
Bird Season

by Daniela Garvue.
“After he brushed his teeth, he raised his wings in the bathroom to examine his smoky gray underfeathers.”

The Orchard

by Lauren Green.
“When the bell finally rings, waste no time. Grab your Kipling from the cubby and head straight to the front of the carpool line.”

Issue 35 Displacement
This Be Madness

by Carter Sickels.
“We were out of heroin and broke. Didn’t have pills. Nothing to drink or huff. “I’ve got a plan,’ I said.”

Issue 27 Our Fragile Environment
A Big Empty

by Rhonda Browning White.
“We hadn’t talked since we left our West Virginia homeplace over two hours ago, both of us teary-eyed…”

Issue 38 2020 Prize winners
Taxi Ride

by Azin Neishaboori.
“It was around noon on a spring day in the month of May when Ms. Abedi appeared at the intersection of Shahrara and Sattar Khan Streets on the west side of Tehran.”

Issue 37 A Good Life
Peer Review

by Kristen Swan Morrison.
“There’s an infiltration in the group. I sense it. I see it a mile away.”

Girls, at Play

by Celeste Ng.
“This is how we play the game: pink means kissing; red means tongue.”

Issue 15 Abilities and Disabilities
Your Quiet Affair

by Christine Caya.
“Your affair with Connie Gervais starts the way you imagine most do.”