You’ve found a job in a liquor store. This is your vocation, now: selling half-pints of budget vodka to the neighborhood end-of-the-liners…
Johnny Quits by Rachael Marks
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Movies in the Cemetery by JT Siems
It is twilight and a misty fog dances between the bars of the foreboding wrought iron gate. The movie starts in ten minutes…
Doppelganger by Paula Freed
Loehmann’s fitting room was unusually crowded. No matter where I stood in this large mirrored space, once a discount designer paradise, reflections of female flesh surrounded me.
Re-envisioning Daydreams by Erik Dane
Ahead of us, trance music is abloom on a stage fronted by revelers pulsing, swaying, embracing, and, in some cases, sleeping.
4/20 by Scott Loring Sanders
Something horrible doesn’t happen every year, but the number of personal occurrences and international news events is haunting.
Sand Dollars by Wendy Fontaine
My daughter would rather scoop mud than look for shells. She has my eyes and my smile but she is not the child I was when I was five years old.
Measuring Up by Aileen Hunt
My father knew his clients’ bodies intimately. He knew whose shoulders sloped, who had one leg longer than the other, and whose neck was disproportionately large.
Palestines by Alison B. Hart
We’re all on the A train to Brooklyn. The disturbed man is telling us, too loudly, that he spent time in a Puerto-Rican prison.
Toxicology by Stacey Resnikoff
Lola still asks daily what day it is. She asks when her sister Faye, not yet two, will be big. She asks when I will be all better…
Like Butterfly Wings by Donna Patrick
My fifteen year old nervously explains how suicidal thoughts have been playing out in her head, sometimes with a rescuer finding her in time…
