Excerpts from ‘Glass City’ by Nick Greer [ Lovers ] People in the city take lovers, how could they not? The evening fog comes on suddenly and old houses can’t keep heat though they do have working fireplaces. I once taught a student at the university how...
The Origins of Poetry by Kevin Honold Archaeologists claim that chance nicksaround the rim of a clay drinking bowlmay have suggested meter to a pair of postglacialdeadbeats squatting in one of the less respectable caves,eating burnt beans, damning the insufferable...
by Simon Perchik It’s not a map yet there’s hope–you unfold old timesas if one morning in February you’d spread your armsand land became land againstayed behind as the snow still tying down the Earth–a small envelope, kept emptythe way you’d reach for her hand and...
A Tea Party of Contemporaneous Proportions by Brandon Christopher Bethany couldn’t have picked a better day to host her imaginary tea party because Vivian, her guest of honor as well as her mother, was having one hell of a terrible day. It had started that morning,...
Creative Non Contest Honorable Mention: Seven Cities of Good by Laura Madeline Wiseman They approach me en masse—blonde, under four feet tall, each carrying a stuffed animal bound by leash. They are so close, their shoulders touch. They may as well be linking arms,...
