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Raise the Babies

By Jan Stinchcomb

Goth Nanny The baby sees black eyeliner circling dead eyes that teach skepticism, or something more sinister, a desire to…

Remember Tomorrow in Seasons

By Shingai Kagunda

Planting Season  “But what if?” Woman leaves the unfinished question hanging in the air, touching her swelling stomach. Man already…

In Violet

By Melissa Goode

The kitchen lightbulb shatters above our heads. The filament burns red and fizzles to nothing. It is an explosion from…

Carrion Clay

By Matthew McHugh

Sometimes the name they give you is all wrong.  It’s really just meant to be a simple, two-word phrase to…

Buffering

By David James Poissant

That morning, Ted began buffering. One minute, he was Ted, coffee cup in hand, talking animatedly about this thing he’d…

Nesting

By Blake L. Bell

Walls Her nest is too tall by the time Molly realizes she can’t climb in. “I left my tools inside.…

Millennial Pink Bread

By Meagan Cass

As if covered in invisible glaze, her bread bakes pink. She buys new flour, new yeast, sends it into the…

Two Identical Strangers

By Rosetta Young

These days, when I pull up the old photographs, most people still attribute the resemblance between Lydia Lissing and me…

Me and Eddie on the Boulevard

By Francine Witte

waiting to cross.  My heart tick, ticking like a stupid clock.  Eddie and his dark hair forest, his blue eye…

The Tornado

By Rebekah Bergman

It was a bright, gray day with no breeze, and she had just finished digging a grave. She’d woken that…

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