The woman jaywalking toward my side of the street is slight, with stooped shoulders and a bent back. Her wiry neck branches into collarbones so sharp that they resemble a wire hanger…
The Fortuneteller by Eileen O’Connor
Category: Issues
California by Amanda Fletcher
I run my mother’s old engagement ring along its chain around my neck. Back and forth in the absentminded way I have been doing since I strung it there last month.
After the Accident by Kathleen Boyle
You have to use the other hand, your left hand. Everything is different…
REVIEW: Shackleton’s Heroes by Wilson McOrist
Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to cross Antarctica in 1914. If you’re savvy to this sort of history, you’ll remember that he never made it.
REVIEW: Body Memory by Joel Peckham
While the cover of the book states: “Essays by Joel Peckham,” these are not the common essays you’d would expect.
Like a Riverbank by Travis Truax
You write out of Montana now—with July’s still-snowy mountains. You are led up and down a scrambled map, open prairie, the bluest lakes, the sharpest peaks…
Eavesdropping by Susan Lilley
…your dad put on a Bossa nova record and the other dads clustered by the stereo, talking about vacations, real estate, cars, baseball, their icy old-fashioneds jingling like tambourines.
When the Gloves Come Off by Michael Fischer
Alie breezes in with her big warm smile, scans my barcode—to make sure I’m the right person, or maybe to see if I’m on sale—then carefully lifts up my sheet and peers down at my penis.
Song of Her Self by Sarah Broussard Weaver
My hair stylist brushed chemicals onto my hair. The clientless stylist in the booth beside us talked about how she’d recently—finally—lost the weight she gained after getting off Adderall.
When Indira Died by Madhushree Ghosh
One month after I turn 14, the third prime minister to govern the world’s largest democracy, Indira Gandhi, is assassinated in New Delhi.
