Five Stories about Kenny George: An Apology for Professor X by Billy Lombardo
March 4, 2020
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in…
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The Next Chapter by Rebecca McClanahan
March 2, 2020
Late October leaves spiral down from the willow oaks as I drive cautiously behind Dad’s Buick. I still think of…
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White Dove by Shawn Shiflett
February 25, 2020
I’m teeing off at a golf course. Despite my not ever having played the game, my swing is textbook perfect,…
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Villains Or I Dream in Science Fiction by Shawn Shiflett
February 24, 2020
I’m on a planet that is inhabited by three humanoid species. My species is called “Villains.” I’m sure that long…
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Gulf by Michael Williamson
February 21, 2020
Jerome can’t think of children without thinking of eels. A whole skein of them, coiled around the end of his…
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My Son Takes an Interest by Meredith Counts
February 17, 2020
I glare at my son, Sammy, who had to tag along with me to my doctor’s appointment and is chewing…
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The Solitude of Sleep by Jamiece Adams
February 11, 2020
When I was a child my mom slept through hours as easy as a river bends, a slow winding sleep.…
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The Secret of the Old Clockwork ‘O’ by Meredith Counts
February 7, 2020
A Nancy Droog, Ultraviolent Girl Detective Mystery  Chapter One “What’s it going to be, then, eh?” Nancy asked herself. She…
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Human Kneads by J.A. Bernstein
February 4, 2020
I never thought the idea of making love communally would be all that useful for a business, but then again,…
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The World Is on Fire So You Have to Protect Yourself by Besty Finesilver Haberl
January 31, 2020
The world is on fire so you have to protect yourself. The good news is that there are easy ways…
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St. Crispin’s Day by Giano Cromley
January 28, 2020
One night, every year, Mom and Dad went out, along with all the other moms and dads in the neighborhood.…
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Fake News by Jeremy T. Wilson
January 24, 2020
Faith wanted me to go. She said I could use a break from our daughter Daisy. “You might learn something,”…
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The Devil in the Details by John McNally
January 22, 2020
Part One It was the last thing on Mary Flynn’s mind when she crawled into bed that night, but by…
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Pleased To Meet You by David Medina
January 16, 2020
I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so help me, I’m going to do whatever it takes…
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Blue Flower Tattoo by Lillie M. Rice
January 14, 2020
It was a blue flowerWhat kind of flower?A blue oneOn her handOn the topIt was colored inIt was tattooed on…
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Self-Portrait Lined with Wallace Stevens by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 10, 2020
When sickness comes, when disease, whena dirty house in a gutted world finds us deserted, our bodies deflated narratives, our…
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Dear Dark Garden by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 7, 2020
Outside, lining the hushed cul-de-sac,dogwood white and pink blossoms peakto petal cascades hiding more basementgirl-held horrors. The pastoral not speaking…
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Recast by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 6, 2020
Loss enters stage left in the form of violinsthrumming the past into forecast: mulberriesin the backyard, first time, a cushioned…
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Portrait as Landscape: No longer fragment or trace by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
January 2, 2020
I used to wear an autumn face and drapemyself in taupes, in grays. I was leaf shriveled,water-logged, the open mouth…
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Red Line by Mike Puican
December 20, 2019
Knife slicing the living night,nacreous river, we’ve stood waiting for youmany times before. And still we wait. River of departure,…
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Sunset at a Lake by Mike Puican
December 18, 2019
A woman sings to her daughter in the grass; a teenager argues          with her boyfriend  …
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Immigrant Grasses by Mike Puican
December 16, 2019
Words, overheard in garden shops, uptown and earnest, blossom into cablegrams from South Korea or Cameroon; oleander, unscented blue star,…
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Stalking the Wild by Fleda Brown
December 13, 2019
You should have seen us scooching from the carwith our walkers, me from knee surgery, himfrom the accumulations: the back,…
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Flying Through a Hole in the Storm by Fleda Brown
December 11, 2019
The plane shudders and shakes and lurches.Outside, lightning, exposed and buried by clouds.The lady next to you has a dying…
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Embroidery by Fleda Brown
December 9, 2019
You will not perhaps believe this but I embroideredpillowcases with the initial of my intended, when I was 16. You…
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Whitman by Ana Castillo
December 6, 2019
I imagine him lying on his back,gaze to the azure sky, white clouds—unlikethis grey New York on a rain-drenched day.Notebook…
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My First Cancer Poem by Ana Castillo
December 6, 2019
Feet forward.Head faces technician.Clamp comes down          presses hard. They werelovely, some said,a pair of violent lotuses…
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Homage to Akilah by Ana Castillo
December 4, 2019
(For Akilah Oliverand Oluchi, en memorium) His body was decomposing         her baby          her…
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Hypertext Interview With Steve Hughes
November 25, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice Detroiter Steve Hughes’s stories fishtail onto the page in his short story collection, Stiff (Wayne State…
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Hypertext Interview With Lisa Lenzo
November 12, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice It’s clear: Lisa Lenzo has lived Detroit. Born and raised in the Motor City, a good…
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