Kevin Carr Author’s Note --- To prepare for this review, I first had to reflect on my last piece and consider what I would have changed....

Jeff W. Bens You're trapped Me too Alienation No One's Bothered... London, June, 2015 We are up front against the red metal barrier that...

Joseph M. Reynolds It’s not too hard to understand why they don’t publish too many books that have basically no plot, and where the...

Leonard Engel, PhD Professor Emeritus of English, Quinnipiac University In the decade following the Civil War, the exodus of former...

Charlie Lee Julia called late Friday night. I must have fallen asleep, because the lights were still on. I picked up the phone with a...

Calen Nakash Rytera soaked in the cast-iron tub and looked out at the universe, as she had every day since her thirteenth birthday. As a...

Jim Schepker As he gouged at the blackened eye of the potato clutched in his slimy palm, he thought about the men wading ashore on the...

Megan Fitzgerald Mother drums her left palm against the beach chair. Her toes wiggle in paper-white sand. “It’s a bit overcast, but still...

Colin Brzezicki Sir is on life support, and I have told his family. Now we must consider where we go from here. It’s a conversation I...

Jeff W. Bens I met Father O'Griffey outside a church in Castlemilk, Glasgow when he ran out of the rectory to tell me he'd saved my...

Harry Lowther I tried to line up the shot. Something to work from later. But my hands, shaking and clammy, didn’t agree and I slid my...

Kaliyah Dorsey Most days, being alive was harder than she’d imagined. She’d been named Siani, meaning “God is gracious,” and if you named...

Fergus Anthony Ride the wind down and hover a while before surfing the breeze to the garden fence, the passing through, rise above...

Matthew Ryan Shelton for Paul Maddern In the park behind the Lemon Tree Café sits a man in a straw-paper hat chewing on a coronita at ten...

R. Joseph Rodríguez IED: A simple bomb made and used by unofficial or unauthorized forces. Origin 1970s: short for improvised explosive...

Mary Lee-Slade You didn’t know I was looking the night I saw you naked in the baby bath. My lungs were full of Scottish sea air and...

Devin Esch Modeled on Anodyne by Yusef Komunyakaa I love how the eyes belong to my father— they used to scowl when strangers said, “you...

Randall Couch I. We remember the new, not the good. This is history as aphorism. If an aphorism’s a proposition with a horizon, what is...

Kerry Carnahan You sniff as I draw near to tell if I’m hostile Beneath your limbs I sprawl elated drunk in marvelous grass Molecules sail...

Erin Lynn Based on the Unicorn Tapestries Inescapable stench of lilac woodland green & rotten with life. Men here grow weary of plenty,...