Brian the Lion Hunter by John Oliver Hodges Brian built a chicken coop in Hornville and stocked his coop with chickens, but the Hornville wives complained of the smell. Worse than the chickens were the dogs. They barked and whinnied and fussed while Brian and Natalie...
Origin Story: Apollo Speaks by Esther Sun After Northern California (2020) Years ago when I lived in the hills, fog filled cypress gapslike words, like sons in doorways. That was when I carved my second...
Conversations with My Aunt by Brett Shaw That time of day when streets existonly in the grace of angles shadow allows— space for running; space for hiding. I can remembermoments I hung between that choiceas a child....
Before the Hard Freeze by Kevin McLellan I couldn’t do anythingabout it, swallowed a shallow lake, arctic one, wore a first barrette.Natural way to identify as female, right? My hair longenough. Also a first. And then what could be a last timewhen I move to Vermont....
Social Media by Emma Bolden If your life is extraordinary enough, the Internet becomes a plotof land in which you plant the clues that make your lies grow into truths. A therapist on Instagram says, think of the thing you would like to do most on most days. Then do...
