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Immigrant
By Gary Beck
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Laundry Day
There is blood leaking out of my washing machine. For the last eight months, my mother has had bullous pemphigoid. “Bullous” means blistering; “pemphigoid” means bubble-like. Together it means that her immune system is attacking her skin, causing outbreaks of blisters all over her body. There are dozens of them…
A Garden in the Desert
The summer desert prickled with the anticipation of rain. Inside the living room, the dog slept like a comma on the rug. Afternoon sun forced its way through the blinds, casting the dog in ribbons of hot white and shadows. She resembled a fox, feathered tail and paws twitching. Occasionally…
The Lizard Girl and the Alligator King
An alligator's stomach is acidic enough to dissolve a child's bones in 13 days. We stand in the side yard of the grand new house in Palm River. The house where cockroaches no longer skitter across the floor at night, where Cricket and I finally get our own rooms, and…
A Final Deployment
I regret I never served my country, but war, ever insidious, plays out on many fronts. Walking into the ICU, I noticed frenetic activity in one room. It always felt lonely to be assigned a patient there, because the room sat at the end of the hall, near the supply…
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Searching for the Clear
I couldn't bring myself to go into his barracks room and view the body. I stood outside the door, one in the endless row of identical doors on the second deck of my company's barracks. The NCIS agent described to me the scene. “Go straight back into the bedroom, button…
Marshmallows
Slogan and I tiptoed around the kitchen. I watched him filch some doughnuts for our trip; he wanted coffee but wanted to get going just as much. We could easily stop along the way. We were the first ones up. The house stood silent in the August dawn, the last…
Fitting In
As a boy, I longed to speak like the other boys I met when we moved to Georgia. My parents divorced when I was 4, and my earliest memories are blissful and dreamlike days and nights on my grandparents' farm in Iowa, early dawn hours of sweet air laced with…
Balance
They think Jimmy did it on purpose. Even now, every time one of them comes back to town for a wedding or a shower or a funeral, they get around to Jimmy eventually. They stop me in front of the Post Office or in the freezer aisle at the Independent…
In Lieu of Flowers
It must have been twenty years ago: my joints aching as I carried the groceries home. Two baguettes—their long bodies rubbing against each other. I remember now. It was back when I would eat a loaf of bread over the course of a few days, barefoot in the kitchen, sort…
We Go Way Back
I was digging in the dirt with Sarah when we were both seven years old. We were digging for dinosaur bones in the space between our houses, under a bush neither of our parents claimed as their own, which had become a no man's land prone to excavations like this.…
Manny
Illustration by Clara Longo de Freitas January 2015 At just past three in the morning, the seventh floor was quiet, its cramped patient rooms dark save for the cool blue lights of pumps and monitors. Children dozed in unfamiliar hospital beds, their limbs wrapped in delicate tangles of wires and…
Blood Ties
Illustration by Carina Guevara Jade would have chosen the diner, but her mother insisted on Red Lobster—the fanciest place around, even if highway noise overtakes Kelly Clarkson every time the door opens. The host sets down menus laminated with outsized images of shrimp: skewered, cocktailed, stuffed. AC pools around Jade's…
Jeffrey Weinstock
Jeffrey Weinstock was born in New York and holds degrees from Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His writing has been featured in Tablet, NPR's The Story, Hippocampus Magazine, The Examined Life, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, and Lip Service, among others. He lives in Miami.
P.L. Watts
P.L. Watts escaped the Florida foster care system and worked her way through college and graduate school. She earned a Lambda Literary Fellowship for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and was runner up for Ruminate's Vandermey Nonfiction Award this year. Her essays have been shortlisted for the DisQuiet Prize and the Speculative…
Cynthia Stock
Cynthia Stock retired after 43 years in Critical Care Nursing. During her career she pursued creative writing through various institutions and mentors. She enjoys being a 71-year-old who writes fiction and nonfiction gleaned from fragments of an ordinary life. Short works have appeared in Memoryhouse, Shark Reef, The Manifest-Station, Lunch…
Sandra Sidi and Lauren Serrano
Sandra Sidi worked as a DOD analyst for the US Military in Iraq (2007, 2008). She was a Fellow for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, where she studied with the Israeli Defense Forces during the height of the Israel-Hezbollah crisis of 2006. She studied…
Byron Spooner
Byron Spooner is the author of Rounding Up a Bison: Stories (Andover Street Archives Press, 2021). He retired as the Literary Director of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library after 21 years. There, in addition to selling $1.5 million in used books annually to benefit the library, he…
Ronald McGuire
Ronald McGuire is a novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, and journalist. His work has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, the Queer as Hell! horror anthology, Screen Door Review, and on CNN.com. Since he began writing full time in 2020, Ronald…
Shannon Hancock
Shannon Hancock was raised in Durham Region, Ontario, where she still lives with her wife and their two children. Her love of reading as a child lead to an early passion for creative writing. Her stories have appeared in several literary journals, most recently The Antigonish Review. Shannon is a…
Michael Foote
Michael Foote (he/him) is a writer and an immigration attorney for the ACLU, Safe Passage Project, and Southern Poverty Law Center. He is at work on his first novel, a comedy about a peeping Tom plaguing a small town, and the group of wayward high schoolers that are forced to…
Ryan Collett
Ryan Collett is a writer, knitter, and animator. His first novel, The Disassembly of Doreen Durand, was published by Sandstone Press in 2021 and hailed as “genuinely original and stylishly written” by NB Magazine. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in London where he works as an editor.…
Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Jewett Becker is a writer and registered nurse. Her Pushcart Prize–nominated essay, “Report”, was awarded the 2018 Crazyhorse Prize in Nonfiction, and she was also a nonfiction finalist for the Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize in 2019. She is a columnist for Richmond Magazine and has worked…
CB Anderson
CB Anderson is a writer, journalist, and teacher. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Pangyrus, Hayden's Ferry, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. Prizes include the New Millennium Award and the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. Anderson's narrative nonfiction book Home Now received honorable…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2022
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Leila Murton Poole Wins the 21st Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
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Hillary Smith
Hillary Smith's poems and stories have appeared in various small publications with fun names. When she isn't writing, she enjoys frolicking in the outdoors, riding trains, and playing musical instruments at a moderately fine level. She has had many bosses, though none of them named Delilah.
Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom
(a pantoum composed of lines from right-wing radio personality Joe Rogan's Spotify transcripts) Imagine capitalism with good ethics rejected by a girl that you're in love with and what takes away their agency is the beautiful thing about business. You learn what makes you laugh, what makes you homosexual rejected…
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A $1000 prize will be awarded to a writer who is living above the 40th parallel. Only poets with an even numbered birthday need apply. All entrants must own a dog, cat, or goldfish, and furnish a photo with the pet's name on the back. Manuscripts can be of any…
One Morning When Stalin Was on Network Television
And, before we forget, a birthday shout-out to Denise Duhamel, one of our and I'm sure one of your favorite poets. Happy Birthday, Denise! Awwww, she's awesome. We absolutely love her. Yes, we love her. We really do. She's so, so Poetic? Yes! Poetic. I love that. It's awesome. Well,…
Baal Downloads Tinder
At last, a site debaucherous enough to render quittance for these anchoritic years passed in a wasteland that bills itself the capital of pleasure, yet ornaments its trade in flesh with neon lights overcompensating, Baal snorts, for its primordial incognizance of carnality's roots in worship. 6'6…because apparently it matters, Baal…
Emily Dickinson Sits Down to Write the Morning After Watching “The Godfather” on Late Night Cable
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The roadster held but just Ourselves— And Clemenza in the back seat with a Wire. We slowly drove—He knew no haste And I had put away Two Extra Helpings of Spaghetti, And who knows how many Glasses of…
Ni Hao Isn’t the Way to My Vagina
met a stranger. on the street. he said, “you good?” well, he actually said “ni hao?” which we all know is “hello” but (he didn't know) really means “you good.” asked it anyway, “you good… in bed?” he told me, “I love your country” which we all know is his…
I Don’t Think Virgins Deserve Spotify Premium
because music is for the romanticization of sin and Virgins never do until they do and because I don't think it will hurt them to listen to an ad or two and Because I heard God worships Virgins on Sundays They don't need anything else They're Spoiled Rotten I really…
That One Sounded Like…
Slapping a raw steak. Tapping in Morse code on a jelly sandwich. Squeezing the neck of a balloon while letting just a little bit of air out. If an old woman turned into a creaky door. A duck sneezing. When a cartoon character blows a trumpet and their tongue comes…
Why So Many Penises (or Should I Say Pee-ni?)
Dicks drawn in cement on the still-wet tar. Dicks drawn in the snow on the hood of my car. Dicks drawn on lockers, dicks decking the hall! Dicks watching me pee in the bar bathroom stall. The boys made a habit of drawing dicks— big dicks, little dicks, flirting dicks,…
Snickering on the Fringe of Debauchery
Doubts kick in at the manor house gates, arguing whether we've found the right place when the security guard's flashlight floods the car. As instructed by my dentist, Doctor Ketamine, who recruited us into this sleazy affair, we blink the hazards once in Doggers' Morse, registering our interest in the…
Not Coming
So, we're having outdoor sex, me bent over the picnic table in the country park, naked, the night air kissing my skin, thrilling at first, but then a bit nippy, even though it's supposed to be summer, al fresco fuck, your car parked down the lane under the trees, (were…
Catalog Capers
“Commercial bandits from the old USSR have made a base in Budapest, and I've been told to send my cleverest agent, Case.” “Equipped with clever equipment, sir?” “Indeed. We're going the whole hog for you, Case. Here's the literature: The Ideal Home Shopping Catalog. “This wrist blood pressure monitor shows…
