by Jessica Normandeau | Apr 1, 2022
Day Eight Beyond the six windows of our little world is a sea that rises with wind and temper. Nothing is even anymore, the horizon an old lunatic, bashing its head against a tilted sky. White caps form on the backs of swells, the Aleutian volcanoes sleeping behind...
by Michael Metivier | Mar 14, 2022
What is now known by the sorrel and the roan?By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding grey?It is: Stay by the gate you are given.Remain in your place, for your season.O had the overfed dead but listenedTo that high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom…But,“Did you...
by Paul Lindholdt | Mar 6, 2022
It’s 1978 and I am sweating on a badminton court across from Annie Dillard. She wears a tank top, tennis shorts, and Converse sneakers with jagged blue diagonals. I am her dazzled student whom she has agreed to volley. We are not keeping score. Every other shot she...
by Sharon Goldberg | Jan 6, 2022
I am intrigued by masks. I collect masks. I’ve hung masks in rooms throughout my home. Half masks. Full face masks. Quirky and mysterious and joyous masks. My captivation was born in my love of theater. At age thirteen, I decided to be an actress and adopted the...
by Linda Trice | Jan 4, 2022
MAUDE CLARK SUSPECTED THAT HER HUSBAND DWAYNE WAS PLANNING TO divorce her and marry his lawyer, Imani Harrison. Why, only God knew. True, Imani was younger, at least ten years younger than Maude most likely, but that’s where her assets ended. Imani herself had...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Dec 19, 2021
IT BEGAN WITH WATCHING A VIDEO OF MOB JUSTICE ONE MONDAY AFTERNOON in October 2012. Later, I would come to discover how paranoid this video made me, and how skeptical I became about the Nigeria Police Force. I was sixteen when I watched this video in class, and now...
