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Friend and Winnowing Fork
by Leslie Williams One ski weekend last year there was thunder, hailhigh wind, we had all arrived inside after a good dayon the mountain: eating, laughing, warm at the lodge’sfire. The storm seemed contained above a layer of cloud,though flashes still were visible. My friend decidedto take her children out on the patio to dine…
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When My Father Tells Me I Had a Great Childhood
by William Fargason I don’t say his temper was a sunflare his belt across my backI don’t say his word ever the last sound each afternoon throughthe hallways I don’t say muscadinesay buckeye say serrated say the woods the only place I felt safeI don’t say my shirt ripped down the backlike a sheet of…
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Family Reunion
by William Fargason The morning after the reunion, my father and Idrove to the family grave plot outside a small townin south Georgia, across a set of train tracks,which looked smaller than it should’ve been, as if the train that rode them was only onebuilt in the imagination. One headstonedisplayed the family name, as if the…
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Aubade With Proscenium Arch Foreshadowing
by James Merenda The apartment’s kitchen has high ceilings,easily fitting three wedged sides of a lofted floor to become my bedroom space when I losemy job in New York and move into my long-distance partner’s homein Oakland, the fourth wall played by an opaque sheet drapedon a sliding ringed track. For the year I’ll live there, my partner’sother partner…
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The Ways of Birds
by Maggie Damken Maggie Damken is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Cease Cows, Breadcrumbs Magazine, Rising Phoenix Review, Ghost Proposal, and others.
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Deeper
by Marc Russo Marc Russo is a researcher and teacher at the NC State College of Design. His research focuses on creating stories and the choices creators make in order to deepen the narrative of their work. Marc’s graphic novel Where You Stumble, There Lies Your Treasure is based on the work of Joseph Campbell,…
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Her Here (Adventures into the Unknown #35)
by Johnny Damm Johnny Damm’s piece “Her Here” is part of a larger series called “Failure Biographies,” which profiles failed twentieth century artists. He is also the author of The Science of Things Familiar (The Operating System), named by the Publishers Weekly Critics Poll as one of the best graphic novels of 2017, and chapbooks…
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Via Negativa
by Susanna Donato Remember honeybees, each flying inch of activity, powdery saddlebags fluffed with pollen. The wild bees, their tiny hovers of black and green, are my favorites, but I will miss honey. Remember cheap overseas flights, when you could bring baggage, when you’d never heard of carbon offsets, when you didn’t know every contrail melted…
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My Autobiography In Water
by Ron Riekki The Sámi for water is cháhci. Liquid is golggus. The Finn for water is vesi. Liquid is neste. I’m Sámi and Karelian and Finn. Balkan too. I like to ask people sometimes to name their favorite Karelian writers. Their favorite Finnish movies. Their favorite Sámi poets and Balkan TV shows. And then I listen…
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Long Lonely
by Aimee Seu I don’t know when I learned my father was a pastor who slept with the women in his congregation. Grief was a spare room where we put things. Inherited memory of my father singing karaoke: O my love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch…the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody, deep untrained voice I…
