We were together for a summer, the first one he’d ever spent away from his two little girls who were downstate with their mother…
Forever Blonde by Brenna Womer
Anticipation by Geoff Watkinson
A young woman sits up in bed. She’s 25-years-old, 5’1”, tan, sericeous blonde hair—brown at the roots. You’re 25-years-old, too, both naked.
Bad Mother by Kaylie Jones
During the fall of my daughter’s sophomore year at the most difficult and impossibly demanding public high school in New York City, Sandra, our cleaning lady, came rushing into my room wearing a pained look…
Smoking or Non by Eben S. Schwartz
… I am stranded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The system of highways and buses that brought me here has shut down after a storm draped everything in an inch of snow.
The State of Elvis in 2016 by Jim Breslin
In this sweltering summer of discontent, the Elvis impersonator is wedged into a rhinestone-encrusted royal-blue jumpsuit. Our pores sweat like Corona bottles under the blistering sun.
Her Breasts by Gretchen Henkel
I remember the day she first unleashed her tits on our family. It was after we moved away from the beach.
Review: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
“I’m no policewoman,” Luiselli, a native of Mexico, tries to reassure him. “I’m no official anyone, I’m not even a lawyer…”
Review: The Little Exile by Jeanette S. Arakwa
The Japanese internment camps created by the Unites States as a reaction to the Pearl Harbor Bombing is dark time in American history.
Reivew: Three Days In Damascus: A Memoir by Kim Schultz
Three Days In Damacus is a powerful memoir meant to educate the world about the living, breathing, collateral damage who have to rebuild elsewhere since the Iraq war.
Interview: Writer and Teacher Vicki Mayk to Host “Healing Through Our Stories” Retreat in June
By day, Vicki Mayk works in marketing and communications in higher education where, among other duties, she edits a university alumni magazine. Also by day—and sometimes by night—she teaches writing on campus and within the community. Part of her community-based writing efforts include working with the bereaved at St. Luke’s Hospice in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She’s…
