First Day of School in Alabama - Mary Ellen Chatwin
The wide white stairs of the Bay Minette Grammar School Spread out on each side of us like wings that September morning. Holding Mama’s...
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- Jun 22, 2021
- 8 min
What Keeps Him There - Mackenna Finley
If you were to walk through the front door of the aged yellow house, you would have to pass through each and every one of the small rooms...
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
As it should be. - Becca Wyant
One day I'll see you again. And someone will introduce us because they won’t have any proof that you and I know each other. Knew each...
- Jun 13, 2021
- 13 min
Rita - Frida Roque
We drove into the sun. We left the city behind because it didn’t love us. We took the phantom road North. Black spruce and the soft...
- Jun 12, 2021
- 5 min
Bloodstained Sheets - Sara Wetmore
Anne glided the razor along the length of her leg. Her hand grazed the wet, silky line to detect any missed hairs. It felt strange...
- Jun 11, 2021
- 9 min
Vignettes from the Alley - Mila Beliso
I. A Door Closes Closed. This is what Maryanne mouthed against double-doors lined in steel, her lips nearly kissing the bulletproof...
- Jun 6, 2021
- 4 min
Running Out of Air - Shannon Hudgens
That afternoon, Jack Finn slipped into the dark corner of a nicer bar than he had ever taken his wife to and watched a Martian suffocate...
- Jun 5, 2021
- 18 min
The Girl - Gregory F. DeLaurier
The River listened. Always did, always had. It heard the moans and cries of those in this little City who faced the terror of life, of...
- Jun 4, 2021
- 16 min
Skeleton Coast - Kerry Anderson
If this were a dream, she’d be flying. Through sand-sky, down sun-scorched highway, toward the thin, dark blue line of the sea. From...
- Jun 3, 2021
- 6 min
The Flowers Are Mine To Pick - Yana Gitelman
In February 2020, I sit at the Harkness table in 242T, legs crossed and shaking, and I write a poem on a sticky note I am hiding in the...
- Jun 2, 2021
- 9 min
The Raven and the Crow - Rebecca McPherson
The three of them are gathered in an untidy triangle, sharing a table in a cramped coffee shop on the corner of a busy street. It is the...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 11 min
Who Cooks for Her - Max McCoubrey
“It was like a banshee....Whoo........ Whoo.... ” Padraic and Tozi were mesmerized by Mary-Ann Ruane’s animated story telling skills....
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