Freckle Inventory
By Anslee WolfeFreckles scatter across his face, neck, arms. They hide beneath clothing. A large one dots his ear. Five pepper his cheek.
When your son, who hates everything, who even hates playing sports,
By Amy R. Martin... asks to play Ultimate Frisbee, you drive him—begrudgingly—to practice. The field is green, squelchy from morning rain. The sky like a Dutch cloud painting.
Photo Story: The Red Shoes
By Karen CrawfordNone of the passengers notice his glare. The lock in his gait, the crush of shoulders, hemming you in.
Jigsaw Puzzle
By Roberta BearyWhen someone said, I saw your husband eating out with another woman, he said she’s a colleague and I believed him...
Foreign Countries
By Emily FarrantoWhen we fell in love, my future husband wrote: Being with you feels like being in a foreign country.
Lullaby for Mariupol
By Stephen ConnacherI remember the chilly winter carnivals at Drama Theater, and the new green and yellow maternity hospital. Neighborhood babushkas gossip among the falling leaves.
Darling at Dinner
By Ellie PruskoThe waiter was staring at Darling, not me. When Darling admitted she wasn't 18, he left her wine glass anyway. He took mine immediately, probably mistaking me for 12.
Photo Story: Dan Needs Sober Friends
By Patrick GreweShe screams toward him: “There are faces…” points adamantly “…in the lights!”
Your Hair Looks Like Taillights
By Lexi ButlerYou talk to your mother in Spanish, your sister in English, and then in numbers to order Chinese take-out. And you love to talk, especially about how you grew up in a one-room walk-up.
Photo Story: Testing Mom’s Claims During Lunch at the Tail End of Our Final Family Vacation
By Abbie BarkerThey’re arguing again. Mom says she shouldn’t sit in the sun...
Struck Silent by Whalesong
By James ClaffeyThe morning of my mother's last day on earth the nurses didn't notice her waif-like frame slip out the door...
Book Review: Snowdog
By Beret OlsenIn Snowdog, Kim Chinquee’s latest collection of flash fiction, the writing is clean and concise, the language unornamented. “[T]he best time to make fake snow is when it’s actually snowing,” she writes in the opening story.
Photo Story: The Gaps Between
By Denise BayesThey announced on the radio that Freddie was dead. I picked up the phone. “Come over,” he said.
Photo Story: Valentine
By Christy BrothersMom packs us into the car. Billy and Jasmine sleep. I sit up front chewing the corners of my nails until they bleed.
Canadensis
By Corinne SilverThey arrived silently, swiftly during the night and stood present by morning. They flocked the fields, parking lots, and manmade suburban ponds. They were big.
