Essay
by Angela Patera
On a crisp December day, my 16-year-old twins, Eric and Rachel, burst into the room, practically radiating excitement. Eric shared the news that their ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Maria Valenzuela Frangakis
We moved to Río Hondo from our small village of San Jacinto in the heat of summer in 1962. I’d been hearing about this impending move for as long as I ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Petra Pallier
I've always had a healthy respect for animals. I liked them in a scientific, distanced sort of way, and to watch them, and read about them; how their ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Gosia Rokicka
Mrs Sartori was lucky in her death, almost as much as she was unlucky in her life. During the two years she spent in her flat undiscovered, she ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Agnieszka Filipek
My father had a collection of butterflies. First he put the pin into the thorax, then on the edges of the wings and dried each butterfly in the sun on ...read the full piece >>Essay
by Madari Pendas
“Wild tongues can’t be tamed; they can only be cut out.” ― Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza I didn’t speak English when I ...read the full piece >>Essay
by tony lashden
This essay starts on September 25 th . The rent is overdue, and I’m lying in the bedroom calculating how many days we have before our landlord starts ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by L. Vocem
Content warning: This text contains references to sexual assault and violence. A bus arrives at the strip mall parking lot. I check the number. It’s ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Sushma A. Singh
In bits, in steps heavy with things named-unnamed; her tender tilt on a twirling earth. In the lake of her aura, with light and shadow unfolding their ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Avy Gdańsk
leaves: a name that is meant for departure tree: a solid thing to turn into when bothered trunk: a person once hiding from body root: a wooden tool ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Viktorija Curlin
“Come buy our orchard fruits! Sweet to tongue and sound to eye, come buy, come buy!” So sang the elven merchants by the water, each and every day. ...read the full piece >>Essay
by Mayumi Yamamoto
1 It was more than twenty years ago. My encounter with Tenten happened by chance on the university campus where I taught in those days. She seemed to ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Binh Anh Khoa Ngo
My mother tells me time and time again That when her breathing stops and eyelids close, That when her body must heed Fate’s command, I am to let it ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz
No one knows anyone in this city. Let’s not get existential, I’m talking about the neighbors again, the time-lapsed way we’ve watched their children ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
by Annika Nerf
I find you, self-contained in a ball, eyes closed. Front flower bed, 40°F, no snow. You lie nestled into the last shoots of the black-eyed Susans. You ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo
Let me tell you this: I bet you wouldn’t really notice your body was running low on nutrients before you started feeling sick. I learned that from ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Abdullah Jimoh
At the shed-kitchen in the backyard, while cooking, the poem begins with the voice of my father — archeological, narrating my biography. Digging up ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Nicole Pisani
so much depends upon the rhinestones doja wore to the met — forgive me for I’ve erred, lucifer . it was schiaparelli, they were crystals , and I ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Martina Natale
i. Every morning, when the sun is still more spirit than light, I’m roused from my rest in the wake of hymns and birdsong. I have been waiting for an ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
by Viviana De Cecco
The first time I saw him, he was sitting in the shade of an oleander tree, on a stone bench a stone’s throw from one of the kiosks on the waterfront. ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Lucy Braun
It only takes one asshole to ruin a good thing for everybody else. Today the water is surprisingly warm. After everyone’s heating bill went up thanks ...read the full piece >>Poetry
by Caroline Kuba
You can almost watch them colonize your kitchen. Filling up the space. Indecisive of where to go. better wait for the dust to settle — until you take ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Elina Kumra
He only had eyes for the moon, but I fell in love with him anyway… The night we met, he fluttered across the café table littered with teacups and ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Nadir Jabur
1 The coldest Christmas Eve on record and it was hands down my biggest order ever. I’d been driving for almost a year since The Daily Witness fired ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Peter Gončar
There lay a valley between two ridges, covered with thick but withered grass. The distance between the ridges was quite large, clearly not less than a ...read the full piece >>Supported by:
