Notice of Proposed Land Use Action

Notice of Proposed Land Use Action by Jennifer Fliss This is a notice to tell you that you will be removed from your house in sixty days. We understand it is the multi-generational home of your family, that your childhood heights and your mother’s childhood heights...

Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett

Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett by Brit Bennett/Judy T. Oldfield Brit Bennett is a novelist and essayist. Her debut book, The Mothers, centers on a young woman from a tight-knit church community who has an abortion. Interspersed throughout, the elderly women of the...

Flooding the Moon

Flooding the Moon by David Dodd Lee It’s nothing, this rainunidentifiablychanging to snow on a shelf we can’t quitereach. The years, child, theyears, some old man, his hands warped into curveddoves, says, in the voiceof the boy he once was. The sky and...

Finding + Destination

Finding + Destination by David Ishaya Osu Finding i find itin a bubble i speaka shadow acrossglasses i find itwhere there is nothingbut moonskin     Destination the last time wasa kiss—they ate the fruiteyes open we playmorning by earbecause even a cloudhas...

Wishbone

Wishbone by Georgene Smith Goodin Burrell was dead two days before we thought about Spider. Miranda was supposed to choose Burrell’s clothes for the funeral, but she chickened out like she always did when things got tough. “I’ll do it,” I said when she called, even...

he says he’s maddecent: the vapors

he says he’s maddecent: the vapors by Justin Monson –for L I want you          but the you whoto think about me      I really mean is the youtell your friends about me          who should know that you’re alland when I say you      that matters in...