#120: Poetry by Glenn Ingersoll
I Can’t Dance I want to devilwith your danceI said my devil, my danceshe said I wish I could danceI saidI wish I could dancelike the devil you can danceshe saidyou can dance your little devildance, it’s ok the devil livedto curse my feetI saidI can’t dance your little devilcan danceshe saidyou just bring him […]
#119: Book Review by Danielle Ariano
Review: The Deceived Ones by Judith Krummeck by Danielle Ariano The tricky part for any contemporary writer adapting a play from Shakespeare’s canon is that to do it successfully, the writer has to give all the appropriate nods to the original, while also making their text feel new and fresh. In Judith Krummeck’s latest release, The […]
#118: Nonfiction by Justin McDevitt
Minimum Fifteen Like any stubborn person, I only checked the weather when I was already outside. Tonight was no exception, only it was a blizzard. The reward for survival was a modest one: a seven hour bar shift. Growing up in New England taught me that there were almost never snow days. While standard nine-to-five […]
#117: Poetry by Inga Piotrowska
VANILLA the moment I realize I’m empty and feel nothing iswhen the ice cream man asks me about what flavour I wantand I don’t know the answer because I’m emptyand I don’t know whether I like chocolate or raspberry I walk away without choosing anything because I like nothingand I don’t feel like ice creamsitting […]
#116: Fiction by Laura J Morris
Spatch-Cock’d I stuff the chicken. One hand up and under its skin. My fingers pushing the soft buttery mixture between its skin and flesh, massaging, rolling, caressing its rawness with my butter-y lemon-y fingers, plumping it. Readying it. 400 degrees. Like that. Roasted. Crispy skin in my mouth. Crackle. Crunch. And yum! Why can’t I […]
#115: Erasure Poems by Justin Hamm
Sources Like a horse: Erasure from “The Dead,” James Joyce, Dubliners Her name was: Erasure from “Araby,” James Joyce, Dubliners Justin Hamm’s most recent book is Drinking Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007-2021. His poems, stories, photographs, reviews, and artwork have appeared in numerous literary journals.
#114: Nonfiction by Ruth Neuwald Falcon
EVERYTHING WANTS TO LIVE (Photo credit: Sue Robin) It took my father a very long time to die. He started shortly before my eighteenth birthday and didn’t finish until I was nearly thirty-five. He did it slowly, incrementally, almost invisibly at times, punctuated by occasional rushes downhill. My life moved along its parallel track, through […]
#113: Poems by John Dorsey
HARRY DEAN STANTON CHANGES THE OIL FOR SID HAIG this is the motorcycle movie that roger corman never madea country on firefull of slow rolling hillstwo good men sitting on a porchcrying to a tunethat nobody’s motherever sang just chewing up the scenery& spitting outwhat was leftinto an empty coffee can. IN THAT MOMENT […]
#112: Fiction by Siamak Vossoughi
NEW IN TOWN I had moved to the kind of town where if during the course of normal conversation, the question of where I was from came up and I told them that I was Iranian, somebody would say, “Okay, but you’re on our side, right?”, which is what happened the first time I went […]
#111: Nonfiction by Yvonne Wakefield
CUNTSVILLE.ORG That churlish smirk made me look down, not in submission, but in search of a shattering vessel to address her kisser. The perfect hourglass-vase was back home in Oregon, but in Switzerland, I had only my wits, a delicate defense mechanism wrecked, along with allusions of literary camaraderie. To the tune of over $5,000, […]