Female While in Mexico
by Paulette Jonguitud
Hers is a country of dead people. All those graves scattered over the hill, the white crosses, the ange... Read More.
Outline of What I Want to Say to My Sister
by Christine Pakkala
I.
A. On the phone, you tell me you were frozen, then brought back to life. The fre... Read More.
What Do You Know About One-Night Stands?
by Joanna Acevedo
You will be twenty or twenty-one or twenty-two, no younger than nineteen, no older than... Read More.
The Enigma
by Tara Rose Stromberg
I was looking for Samuel Bernstein's novel, Lulu, at The Strand, a giant stack of books teetering in the crook of ... Read More.
Plainclothes Agenda
by Christopher Kojzar
Let me start by just naming what I am when I go out in public —
a man writing something into a book, who ... Read More.
GBU – 43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (aka ‘mother of all bombs’)
I fall into the mountain side; I burn in
to the twisting serpent of chambers
hidd... Read More.
Within His Birdcage
Give me that handkerchief someone dropped on the corner next to the stand
where those suits are trying to swap sunlight for twenty bucke... Read More.
Black Dog Found
Behind some airport some quiet organ -ization ignites a portable flare stack. Cindy, whose depression is tropical, is not yet a hurricane. Like... Read More.
It's me, Mom.
by Bianca Ng
My parents gave up a comfortable life in China so that their children could have better opportunities. When they came to ... Read More.
On Race and Small Talk With the Neighbors
by Dionne Custer Edwards
We found our home driving through the neighborhood adjacent to where I used to li... Read More.
