Collapsing Intimacies by Edidiong Uzoma Essien In the last three years, Eka has only been intimate with two men. One is a pattern cutter at the garment factory that employs her, the other, an expat who doesn’t seem to be employed but lives like a minor monarch, rents...
In Your Life You Will Meet Many Familiars by David Borofka “…your life, somewhere far behind you…” —Danusha Laméris, “Fictional Characters” The cat—she assumed it was a cat because she never really saw it, not then—darted across the road...
First Light by Jason Allen We crossed the river in the rainy haze of my headlights, with the wipers swishing on high. Traffic in the opposite lanes of the Burnside Bridge kicked up clouds of mist and passed by distorted and vague, as though my truck windows had all...
Good Neighbors by Jill Mceldowney I ask the sky for a miracle and the sky sends me pigeons sends me letters. Come home said the letters and I know a miracle is only a miracle after...
Cruising by Joey Wańczyk When ticks become hungry for blood it is called questing: they climb and climb thick trees, tall grasses, hairy bushes, because they don’t have wings or legs strong enough to leap onto their prey, so they reach out from a great height and...
