OCT 2025 / ISSUE 49

Vespers

by Jesse Sorrell

When I was a child with a just-dead dad,
I sat at the kitchen table after my mother and brother had gone to bed. I was afraid...

Mausoleum

by Claudia Goulette

My drawings are based on original text from notebooks I have kept over the years. I am interested in exploring the limitations and elegance of formal…

Sea Swimming

by LaDonna Witmer

In the sea near Galway a woman howls at the full moon. She howls with her mouth full of salt. Salt and blood and something deeper than language….

Lovers Pain

by Robi Wood

We sit in the back of a black car.  New mouth. Her first time sucking the face of “another woman.” She can’t feel my gender. We  don’t know each other…

Breaking Rank

by Ayoung Kim

My mother was a pretty girl with a hot temper. Her classmates nicknamed her the Korean Doris Day. They didn’t know behind that perky nose…

Ghost

by Dawn McCombs

I live in the same house where we lived together for sixteen years, although I’ve changed most of the furniture. He didn’t take his things, so I stuffed…