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,...
Reward by Santi Elijah Holley Trixie had been missing for nearly a week. My daughter and I made the poster together, using my computer and scanner and a photograph of Trixie as a kitten. The photo was a year old, but it was the most recent one we had. Fran, my...
After The Fact by Heikki Huotari Our secrets are on sale but just won’t tip the scale however close we hold the cards, however, hearing bells, in post and rope and canvas corners into yellow plastic buckets we spit out however many perfect teeth. The self serve...
some mornings i don’t want to put on clothes because i know i’ll eventually have to take them off by Erica Brunner I’m in a bathrobeand combat boots Lines tunnelinto my skin There are traceable veinsbeneath my décolletage Dark dog hair onwhite wool Green...
Sugar Blizzard of the Wishful Thought by Alec Hirshman To shrink the yard to a kind of room,the town to a draft in a hall,there’s snow, lots of it. To figure myselfa shade, I flush behind a cigaretteand send my double-breath from the stoopto the smokestack....
