The Only Child by Jayne Martin February 1, 2015 “Terminal” was the word the doctors used, a term my then 19-year-old mind could not attach – refused to attach – to the often fraught, single mother… Read the full story →
Makin’ Dirty Dishes by Jody Keisner February 1, 2015 His picture didn’t interest me… What I fell for instantly was the sexiness that oozed from his words. Read the full story →
Smoking Dreams by George Dila February 1, 2015 I have not quit. I have made no such bold, unequivocal commitment. That I have not smoked in twenty-five years does not mean that I will never smoke another one. Read the full story →
Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend on Facebook by Amanda Miska February 1, 2015 She is beautiful—like, princess-of-some-obscure-country beautiful or my-dad-is-a-B-list-celebrity-and-my-mom’s-a-performance-artist beautiful. Read the full story →
Confession by Tyler Wells Lynch February 1, 2015 I’ve already told Dad. His response fell somewhere between “it’s your life” and “I have no choice but to accept it. Read the full story →
Cow Love (L’amour vache) by Dale Roche February 1, 2015 I wanted to sit outside and sneak a smoke. I was sneaking smokes again, which is pretty silly, since you smoke like a fiend… Read the full story →
Wakefield by Doug Thiele February 1, 2015 It was my yearly escape; absentminded travel, hunting old books and indelible images of Virginiana. Read the full story →
A Love Letter to Sarah by Ryan Rydzewski February 1, 2015 I was slick and sandy and sweating a rotten tropical sweat, trying to put sharks and jellyfish out of my mind as we waded in the piss-warm water. Read the full story →
A Beagle on My Knee by Jenny Clover February 1, 2015 Miss Ellie never met a bowl of red beans or a skillet of cornbread she didn’t love; neither did her beagle, Penny. Read the full story →
What I Learned Instead by Debbie Bradford February 1, 2015 Houses, trees, telephone poles blur. I close my eyes, but they open. To see how I’m going to die. Read the full story →