It’d been almost two years since I’d moved to Colorado, two years since my father had laid eyes on me.
Little Bitch Rising by Charlotte Gullick
Category: Most Memorable
Our Most Memorable program was sunset in spring 2019; please enjoy viewing the archived stories tagged with “most memorable” of each issue.
Appearances by Christine Ritenis
What most surprised me when I encountered Frank, the man who’d raped me twenty-eight years earlier, was that I wondered if he still found me attractive.
The Erection Question by Liz Prato
Here’s the tricky part of the whole “sex isn’t a part of therapeutic massage” paradigm: humans are sexual beings.
Things in the Shape of Trailers by John Yu Branscum
My father was possessed by a trailer. … My Mom was obsessed with doing paint-by-numbers and would get trapped in magenta jungles for days …
Heart Failure by Rocky Lewis
When the phone rings and I see Nora’s picture, I take deep breath and let go of my day’s plans.
Johnny Quits by Rachael Marks
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…
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.
Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend on Facebook by Amanda Miska
She is beautiful—like, princess-of-some-obscure-country beautiful or my-dad-is-a-B-list-celebrity-and-my-mom’s-a-performance-artist beautiful.
Blue is the Color of Hope by Lynn Hall
An acquaintance once commented on my fanatically active lifestyle that I must be running from something. I am. My pain.
These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends by Mary Killian
He scooped the animal up by its neck, wrapped it in a dirty tablecloth that he found in somebody’s boat and returned to Queens on the subway.
