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New Online: Fiction from Issue 8

Mouth: A Short Story
fiction by
MOLLY TOLSKY

artwork by Michael Renaud
All day long, I think about my mouth.
It started with a gold-haired boy named Jimmy. He put his hand on my shoulder when he said hi to me in the science hallway … Continue reading

Honor National Poetry Month and Carolyn M. Rodgers

IN THE SHADOW OF TURNING: THROWING SALT
poetry by CAROLYN M. RODGERS
Salt is what
it all becomes.
Salt always did make me crave
sugar. If I could have turned and
looked back, like Lot’s wife,
I never would have.
Turning is for other memories.
Memories are actually seasons
of … Continue reading

Celebrate National Poetry Month: with Dorothea Lasky

Six Old Guys
(For Thom on his 31st birthday, written in honor of both this and his magical eyes)
poetry by DOROTHEA LASKY
There are six old guys at the 90th St. Y that I see go every day at 3:30 … Continue reading

National Poetry Month: New Poems Online

On the New Poetry
for Blossom Dearie
by GREG PURCELL
It must be stupid.
It must benefit our friends and benefactors in the least offensive way.
It must close ranks on the unknown.
It must switch to merely geologic time, which may be too much.
It … Continue reading

New Online: Afterglow by Robert Duffer

Illustration by Kelsey Zigmund
Afterglow
fiction by
ROBERT DUFFER
It started as an endearment, her finger in his belly button an intimacy that was uniquely and solely theirs. His navel swallowed not one but two of the knuckles on her index finger.
“It’s just so … Continue reading

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