The Waiting Dream

2015, Poetry

The Waiting Dream by Mark J. Mitchell   Enslaved by circumstances, to wait, without vanity, uncalculating and available, for the whim of the marketplace, to wait, without pleasure, for routine or for chance. —Joyce Mansour, “Practical Advice for...

What I Kept To Myself

2015, Poetry

What I Kept To Myself by Ellie Rogers     Like in 7th grade when David Myers held in a sneeze until his left lung collapsed; the oil slick of his trapped irritation spilled across his esophagus, and his alveoli, like fleeing fall geese, pumped clogged...

When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses

2015, Poetry

When My Parents Were Hippopotamuses by Alex Gallo-Brown   When my parents were hippopotamuses, they grew tiny immaculate strawberries and wore them on their fingers like rings. They didn’t have to taste them— they knew that they were extraordinary. The president...

Look and Leap Contest Winners Audio

2015, Audio/Visual, Poetry, Prose

Look and Leap Contest Winners Audio The winners of our 2015 Look and Leap Contest, as read by Managing Editor Courtney Johnson at the release party for Issue #6 at Gallery 4Culture. “Death’s Fabulous Remains,” Barbara Harroun”Branching,”...

Release

2015, Prose

Release by Talia Cohen   The thirty burros were the last straw. I already couldn’t sleep because the road kept unspooling in front of me whenever I closed my eyes, and Thomas’s macaroni-bean special added its own sour notes to my internal chaos. I launched myself...