Fiction: The Garden

  It was more than she’d imagined, the loose ends of the dead. Julia had set aside this Saturday morning to meet her younger sister—finally, they would go through the last of their father’s possessions before the house and all within was surrendered to the church. Julia hoped to salvage a few valuables, the Waterford […]

Poetry by Sarah Browning

Sensitive Visiting family in the Virginia countryside – I am 9, maybe, or 10 – tumble of cousin-joy and swimming holes. Over supper one night, corn pudding sticky on all our tongues, the grownups talk: an accident on the road nearby – a bike, a man. And though we do not learn the outcome, later […]

Contributor Spotlight: Lisa Rosinsky

“Lilith in Exile,” “Aphrodisiac,” and “Instillation Artist” by Lisa Rosinsky appeared in Issue 36 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about this set of poems.  These three pieces are from a sequence of poems I’m working on that imagines erotic/romantic tension between Lilith and Eve. Who could they be in a […]

Fiction: The Fairy Tale Machine

Read More: A brief Q&A with Gwendolyn Paradice Maggie’s parents found her at 5:30am, in the kitchen, watching cartoons, eating gummy worms, and writing her Christmas wish list. She’d scribbled with red and green marker in too large letters, some of them backwards and upside down, in one of her father’s legal pads. She held […]

Fiction: A Hexed House

Read More: A brief Q&A with Liz Rosen The house had always had a hex on it. Children who had sleepovers there came home describing dreams that they’d floated free of their tangled sleeping bags as they slept. Tradesmen noticed how the house seemed to hum around them as they worked, not unpleasantly exactly, but […]

Three Poems by Saba Z Husain

The Resettlement We picked zinnias the day before leaving, and armfuls of marigolds from a farm refugees had sown. Late September warmed the beans on the poles, and somewhere between the kale’s neat rows and tomorrow, childhood homes were left behind. We worked fast under the sun, learned where to nip the blooms, arranged petals […]

Contributor Spotlight: George Franklin

“The Ape in the Garden;” “Such was the funeral of Hector, breaker of horses;” “Muscovy Ducks;” and “Visitors” by George Franklin Franklin appeared in Issue 34 and can be found here. We’d love to hear more about this set of poetry. It’s always interesting to be asked a question that makes you see some work […]

Four Poems by George Franklin

Read More: A brief Q&A with George Franklin The Ape in the Garden Mahler complained to Freud how the vulgar Intrudes on the sublime, the organ grinder’s jangle On choking grief, the ape in the garden, wild Gesticulations in moonlight.  He imagined Alma in bed with Gropius, convulsions of Her abdomen and pelvis, and worst […]

Fiction: Dowsing

The days have begun to hurt a little, drought sticking to the roofs of our mouths. Becca stands with her back to me, fretting over the snuff-colored stream of tarnished water that spews from the faucet. “I’m not drinking that,” she says. I say nothing back, but motion her over to stand beside me, get […]

Three Poems by Claire Scott

Read More: A brief Q&A with Claire Scott Stories Don’t Always Stand Straight The film director, editing, cutting, redacting, renouncing. What’s left on the floor we never see. What’s spliced in looks almost seamless. Yet sometimes we discover disturbing gaps: a fear of orange, nausea at the smell of leather. Clips of history on the […]