McNally shows us a pubescent boy who is fat, a teenager who is not, and a sometimes-fat, sometimes-not man who never fully escapes his earliest identity as a fat boy.
Review: The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex by John McNally
Category: Issues
Red Clay Castles by Jennifer Watkins
Six o’clock on a Friday, and blue skies give way to orange. On hot bricks, Mama sits smoking, flicking red-tipped butts into bushes.
Economics of Loss by Shamae Budd
In college, I owned a frog—an Indonesian White’s treefrog: plump and squishy, green skin pulled taut over delicate, angular leg bones and the tiny vertebrae of the spine.
My Mother at Georg Jensen by John A. McDermott
The girl steps quickly down the store’s back stairwell, her vision blurry with tears, her skin flushed with shame.
The After Party by Martha Polk
Mom’s boyfriend collapsed at the party. Eyes closed, head slumped against his shoulder; his face was sallow, but that’s not what shocked me.
Gradually, Then Suddenly by Tim Hillegonds
I met Erin on a Metra train heading from the suburbs of Chicago to the city, four years after I left the comfortable structure of a Minnesota rehab.
A Paean to Change by Ed Nugent
I live in a dynamic topography. To my east, the cerulean waters of the Gulf of California fill the rent in the Earth’s crust…
Live by the Sword by Cameron Gearen
I don’t want to think about his body, alive or dead. They ask, and I have to push away a memory of him lumbering toward me, smirking…
Vienna Sausage and Such by Chris Carbaugh
…my four brothers, Johnny, BB, Curt, Paul, and I grew up with a steady diet of Vienna sausages, those half-sized, mystery-meat weiners that come in very small cans.
CRAFT: Writing a Book Might Not Change Your Life, But It Will Change You by Abby Norman
Writers like to write articles extolling the many misconceptions about their profession; misconceptions that, at times, they themselves believe.
