Concentric Circles I loved a man once who would say Watchand cover his mouth with his fistand heave into it, tip his head backto puff smoke out from deep inside,and I knew he wanted me […]
Prayer For Leaving In The Middle Of The Night (Ruth Weissmann)
On the car ride we practice our hagiography. Saint Anthony, patron of lost things, please let my plastic panther with the eyes that glow in the dark be hiding under the seat and not left […]
Everything Must Go (Dana Knott)
Eight a.m. on a Saturday morning, Rachel opened the door, clad only in her robe and fuzzy slippers, without even a quick look through the peephole. A mob of people pushed past her and poured […]
Sometimes, Susan (Shaemus Spencer)
You ever have a panic attack? It’s not the same as the anxiety you get when you’re up for a review at work or when your stomach won’t stop turning and your hands keep shaking […]
BEARD-HOUSE (Josh Dale)
It has taken me a year to grow the beard of my dreams. I bought all the oils, all the conditioners, all the brushes and now it is dark and full of mirth down to […]
Fun World! (Mike Andrelczyk)
Shit maybe it’s not a fun world Oh wait I just remembered gorillas can do sign language On the news there is footage of a hotel exploding Charts of diseases spreading, images of cities burning, […]
A Year of Violence (Michael Aurelio)
During the year in which my girlfriend was brutally attacked and almost killed, I took up boxing. I wandered the streets of Manhattan. Dared cars to run me over. Stared down 6ft tall men hoping […]
White flowers by acrylic (Rini Barman)
Not that you are gone But that you are going And not that you are far From going intothat which you keep going outand about. But that your eyes twitch Like a white flower bud […]
Where Do We Go From Here? (Megan Neary )
It should be beautiful, to lie beneath the stars on a warm spring night, stretched out in the bed of the beat-up red truck, his arms around her, a pile of blankets on top of […]
Rejection Letters 