“The Transformative Effect of Sparkly Red Shoes” by Lisa Julin Sharon appeared in Issue 17 and can be read here. We’d love to hear more about this story. The aspect of this story that most gripped me was Jill’s sense of superiority over her husband, crediting herself with heightened imagination, creativity and passion, while all the […]
Read More: A brief interview with Lisa Julin Sharon Lars went missing on May third. Jill and Lars’s Beagle, Tip, was the first to notice. It was time for his walk and there was no Lars to take him. Tip alerted Jill by plunking down in front of her with his tail sweeping an arc […]
Marriage My husband is planting a packet of snap peas, knees in dirt, as he pats the earth, the way he rubbed our daughter’s back when she cried. I see him rest against the stockade fence, half-smiling, half-frowning, speaking a little to himself. Hear his huge sighs which he always denies. He comes inside for […]
“Two Islands,” an essay by Patrick Clement James, appeared in Issue 15 and can be read here. We’d love to hear more about “Two Islands.” “Two Islands” documents a period of time I spent in Hawaii during my early twenties. The eponymous islands are Hawai’i, the largest island in the state, and Manhattan. I went to […]
Ars Poetica Pictograph: just a word for yesterday. Like youth. Like never again. I’m sorry. Abstracts of horses and men on horses and bows and arrows and huge breathy beasts scaled upward by fear. Scaled by hunger. I have a book that thinks it can translate the world. It reads like how dead people speak. I hold it […]
Katherine Durham Oldmixon’s poems “Vespers” and “When It Last Snowed” appeared in our Spring ’16 Issue and can be read in their entirety here. Tell us a little about “When it Last Snowed.” It doesn’t snow often in central Texas. In winter, we get freezing weather and sometimes ice, but snow is a rare event, an ordinary […]
In some ways, Ezra sensed his world was larger than hers because, being an intellectual at heart, he was ever-aware of what he didn’t know, and that open space hovering just outside of what he understood, though agonizing, made him confront his limitations. His not knowing demanded humility. Ida, on the other hand, lived in […]