Category: Weekly

#110: Three Poems by Theodore Worozbyt

HOURS The bruises change with the hour. You lie in bed listening to the Lloyd Cole the semi-invented Russian did or did not send across the Kremlin spires like a gaunt black bird tall in the gawking sky, something foreign inside you. They are invisible, these marks, like the birds flying in the night, like […]

#109: Fiction by Krissi Stocks

MOUNTAIN ASH Iris was determined. She would stay here until her fingers froze and her lips turned blue. A nine-year-old popsicle. She remembered reading a story about people who died from hypothermia. In the end, you feel hot. Often, people who died were found naked, frozen in place, trying to cool off. Maybe she should […]

#108: Nonfiction by Joanne Furio

YOU ARE MY CANDY GIRL “I want a quarter pound of nonpareils!”  She was my grandmother’s age. Wore the same cat’s eyeglasses and navy polka-dot dress. “Milk or dark?” “Dark.” I had never heard of nonpareils before I started working at John Wanamaker’s candy counter. They are quarter-sized circular chocolates sprinkled with tiny, white dots, popularly known […]

#107: Nonfiction by David James

ELEVATOR OPERATORS AND PILOTS We were cruising west under a moonless dome of stars against the usual nighttime flow of heavy traffic bound for Europe. Our route kept us just north of the Atlantic track system, a set of parallel airways now stacked with oncoming planes. Three hours had elapsed since departing Stockholm, and another three would pass […]

#106: Nonfiction by Lindsey Wente

SLUTS DON’T HAVE BABIES It’s Christmas on the Wente side, which means it is January, Grandma Kathy is making  chicken and rice, and everyone I’ve known is invited. My mother, her new husband (my stepdad), her old husband (my biological dad). Cheating exes (my biological dad, two of my  uncles). New girlfriends. Ghosts. Estranged sons. This […]

#105: Poetry by Peycho Kanev

WHEN WINTER COMES… The skyanother kind of skyand so is the light seepingover hereabove the plains coveredin snowlike a sheet of plain white paper,there lies the evening townwhere we are fed up with the dark,where the tracks in the snowlead to nowhere.Now try to picture my house,blanketed in whiteness,lost somewhere in time,and mesomewhere inside the […]

#104: Nonfiction by Michael Zimecki

RADIUM MAN Ebenezer MacBurney Byers delighted in telling everyone, especially his female friends, that he was radioactive. “I’ll make you glow,” he said to every woman he met. And it was true. He left all of his lovers satisfied. There had been no complaints on that score since he started drinking Radithor. Radithor was a […]

#103: Nonfiction by Madison Block

ALL MY LOVE ALWAYS “These look like engagement photos,” Mads laughed as we looked at the pictures we had taken at Keukenhof, the famous tulip garden in the Netherlands. It was our second year living in Leiden, and by now we knew that spring was when the Dutch landscape was at its most beautiful. “Oh […]

#102: Nonfiction by William Tang

THE DREAMED WALL “But for a dream, the Great Wall was built; but for the wall, the empire fell.” He Zi-Qing何自清, Chinese historian   In 214 BC, a tall, red-faced apparition appeared in front of the Emperor. The creature waved a flaming sword and declared, “Hu will be the one that destroys the Ch’in,” then […]