The dressing room is full of smoke, half-naked girls, and overly sweet smells of cotton-candy confections and temptation.
Body Economy by Audrey Granger Perry
Category: Creative Nonfiction
The Heart’s Chambers by Patricia M. Dwyer
“In a healthy heart…” My cardiologist’s words linger in my mind. I listen carefully as she sketches an image of a heart on the back of her notepad. It looks something like a big beetle from where I lay on the hospital bed…
Things Seen in the Dark: A Triptych by Mary Heather Noble
I thought I heard howling the other night. It startled me from a dream, and I raised my head from the indentation in my pillow to listen again —
Maybe We Can Make a Circle by Nicole Piasecki
I’ve started to write this letter at least 20 times in as many years. Just imagine me sitting alone in my office surrounded by crumpled pieces of paper.
Eastern Parkway by Ed Doerr
For a while after it happened, I would snap awake at night, clawing my stomach to staunch the blood I had dreamed was spurting out of me.
Forever Blonde by Brenna Womer
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…
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.
