Donauta Watson Flashes of electricity from a wall socket leaves me frazzled, the land lady’s son comes to fix the wall unit. Leaning on...

Korrine Key It was purely accidental, stumbling across those tall bamboo shoots– like city towers hanging off the side of the sudden...

Gabriel Welsch I watch a guy finish a cigarette standing next to a Hinoki cyprus on a rooftop bar, at 4 o’clock when the only patrons are...

Kaylee Lowe I’ve counted $83 in ones after my fourteen-hour Friday when I remember why my apron feels heavier. I reach for the gold...

Kaylee Lowe Matt is humming “Closing Time” under his breath. I wonder if he ever gets tired of Semisonic, Led Zepplin, or the other old...

Shelby Rogers It’s all pristine white walls, some artwork, no personality, just square shapes on a red background saying nothin’, while...

Shelby Rogers You start with an oval, a simple scrawling across lined pages sometimes misshapen it depends on how steady the hand is...

Cal Freeman It’s Bloomsday on Father’s Day this year, and I’m inevitably thinking of my dad three years gone while reading about...

R.H. DeVault Winter burials are always the hardest. The pickaxed clay lets in the water and makes the shoulders of the stones shrug and...

R.H. DeVault for Dawn Come meet me then late in the evening after the starlings have swarmed. We’ll rest tanned feet on the...

Tom C. Hunley This song keeps following me around. Stalking me. Not even a full song. A snippet from a funny movie: “Forgetting Sarah...

Terri McCord The trash like the diamonds of kite tails lining the ditches between asphalt and mulch The light that...

Terri McCord “Anyone operating a vehicle should not be attempting to look up at the sky during the eclipse – their eyes should be on...

David Epstein reveals the cells by touching only some percent, a half of half of one, and how? A mystery, the mental curtain drawn across...

David Epstein When sudden saw I cloud from far away, I knew that all of history it saw, although it misted up and blew apart, all of...

Sue Ellen Thompson At the end of yoga class there is that moment when, as we’re lying on our backs in savasana , the teacher says, If...

Sue Ellen Thompson As we left the hospital, our new baby strapped in her backward-facing seat, everything ahead seemed unfamiliar: ...

Dawn Leas You weren’t dressed in shag carpeting or decorated in 70’s harvest gold appliances. You didn’t smell of pot, weren’t...

A.M. Castro After winning a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the 2023 legal thriller Anatomy of a Fall, and receiving rave reviews...

Chloe Cook Marianne Moore’s tendency for neurotic revision is evidenced by the leap between the 1924 and 1925 versions of her poem,...