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image from 1907 of ice cave in a glacier

Three Poems

in Poetry on February 25, 2021 February 19, 2021

Ice Caves I can’t hike the Cascades without thinking the worst, be it rockslide or heatstroke, or cougar springing out of the ferns and devil’s club. Day of fun ruined. My dad carries a Glock…

three images of mike the headless chicken viewed through blue, yellow, and green filters

Two Poems

in Poetry on February 18, 2021 January 5, 2021

This Strange Continent Let’s write of our grandmothers. Mamaw always made biscuits. Her rings hung around her thin fingers like a rattle. With these hands that drove a munitions truck during the war, that beat…

The Costume Chest

in Fiction on February 11, 2021 June 3, 2021

part one: posed normajeanie’s room is open Norma sets her laptop on the old costume chest at the foot of the bed.[1] Socks pulled up to her knees, an ambiguous ring on her left hand—these…

image of basketball hoop from below, silhouetted against a blue sky

Describing the Jordan XI Space Jams with My Eyes Closed to a Blind Man Over the Phone While Working at Foot Locker

in Flash Nonfiction on February 4, 2021 January 5, 2021

I got you. These joints clean, bruh. Clean. Classic too. Jordan introduced these joints during the 1995 Eastern Conference Finals vs the Orlando Magic. Bulls lost that year. I know. Rodman wasn’t there yet. They’d…

green-filtered image of empty canoe floating on water

Slow Leak

in Fiction on January 21, 2021 January 5, 2021

Please be advised that this story includes descriptions of self-harm and suicidal ideation. —The Editors For the past thirteen days I’ve been sleeping in the canoe hanging in our garage. The canoe is aluminum and…