Issue 4: Holly Mayes: Art Editor
Issue 4: Nicholas Garnett: Guest Nonfiction Editor
Issue 3: So, Corey…
ISSUE 4: APRIL 2012
RANDOM PICKS
In a Desk Drawer
At the bottom of my desk drawer a tiny clay figurine, the sculpted image of a girl, unpainted, sightless one skinny arm broken at the elbow, the other limp and useless.This is my daughter, in her thirteenth year.In the same drawer, seven baby teeth, a lock of magnificent golden hair lost in … [Read More...]
Woodfield’s Wigs
My sister developed a bad cough as we waited at the bus station for what seemed like three hours. Other than that, there was this silent version of quiet. People walked to and fro as though their mouths had been glued. There were no babies crying, no couples talking, no cell phones ringing. … [Read More...]
The Can Man
Justin Pupecki and I were standing on high bridge—a stretch of train tracks joining together two cliffs in the woods behind my neighborhood—passing back and forth a bottle of Canadian Whiskey Pupecki had stolen from his parents. I was a sophomore in high school, fifteen years old, and because … [Read More...]
Holding Hands
Rose says she has a plan. She climbs into the front seat of my Honda and adds another detail, another way that she’ll get revenge on The Bastard, her soon to be ex-husband. “My vet friend is saving cat pee so I can dump it on the floors before Bobby and I move out. You can never get rid of … [Read More...]
Enough Troubles Already
I have two teen-age daughters about to have babies, a son home from Afghanistan, about to turn twenty-one. And families are falling apart every direction you look. People are losing jobs, cannot find jobs, don’t want jobs, tax cuts, tax increases, Obamacare, the Tea Party, foreclosures, floods, … [Read More...]
The Man in the Blue Suit
Mark checked the meter on the gas pump for the third time in five days. Still fuel in the tanks. He closed the hatch and pocketed his screwdriver and looked out into the woods across the swath of tall grass that grew by the station. Evening was coming on, and he rarely got any customers after dark. … [Read More...]
PREVIOUSLY FEATURED
Preston Allen: The Keys to my Apartment
I open the door to the small apartment on the top floor of the ancient, but affordable apartment … [Read More...]
Geoffrey Philp: Erzulie’s Daughter
It began with the usual insults about her nose and hips, and the belief that her true-true … [Read More...]
Lori Jakiela: All of Them Would Hurt Someone, I Think
The woman who calls herself my sister is Blonde4eva. This is her e-mail address. I find this … [Read More...]
Matthew Sharpe: Golf
For the last 20 years or so the artist Adam Simon and I have been having a wide-ranging conversation … [Read More...]
Dan Wakefield: A Lot of Barracudas
“It’s dangerous,” Titi’s father says. “There’s a lot of barracudas.” This is … [Read More...]
Allison Joseph: Ode to the Naked Mole Rat
Hairless, nearly sightless, cold-blooded bucktoothed rodent roly-poly as sausage, you burrow six … [Read More...]
Denise Duhamel: Girl Talk
I lost my Ronnie when I was only 58. 58! Can you imagine? I was so young then, but I wasn’t … [Read More...]
John Dufresne: Escape Velocity
He’s thinking about the smoked salmon dinner with garlic mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus … [Read More...]
Kim Barnes: The Wages of Sin (A Personal History of Economics)
I. I am ten when the older boy from our little fundamentalist church places a dime in my hand and … [Read More...]
- Preston Allen: The Keys to my Apartment
- Geoffrey Philp: Erzulie’s Daughter
- Lori Jakiela: All of Them Would Hurt Someone, I Think
- Matthew Sharpe: Golf
- Dan Wakefield: A Lot of Barracudas
- Allison Joseph: Ode to the Naked Mole Rat
- Denise Duhamel: Girl Talk
- John Dufresne: Escape Velocity
- Kim Barnes: The Wages of Sin (A Personal History of Economics)
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