Author: phoebejournal

Issue 23.1, Winter 1994

Table of Contents David Hoefer, “Elizabethtown” Anna Rabinowitz, “ABECEDARIUM” Eric Leach, “For Grief I Want More” Thomas Barbash, “The Truth About Us”...

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Issue 44.2, Spring 2015

Table of Contents Greg Grummer Poetry Award Judged by Brian Teare Winner Konstantin Kulakov, “Keats by Glenmont Metro” Runner Up Gillian Cummings, “Moon Girls of the Medicine...

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Stone Cold Steve Austin Cannot Be Forgotten

Brian Oliu   What you want to know is who was my favorite. What you hear is not what you want to hear—a name that means nothing as it was born from something pressing—a technician with a...

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Trompe L’Oeil

2017 Nonfiction Award Winner, Chosen by Elena Passarello Liz Asch   The apartment we’ve rented for the remainder of our stay in New York is on the fifteenth floor, with a perfect view of the...

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Multiverse

Jeffrey Ricker   You learn about the multiverse theory from your Facebook feed, when a story about it appears above a photo someone posts of your best friend from high school. It’s unexpected,...

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My Shopping List

Victoria Saltz   “No harm done, am I right?” That was the third time I had been wrong that day. I smiled earnestly at the cashier in the green apron bending down to pick up the bruised...

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TIME TO BLEED

Ander Monson   Things keep happening outside my screen. In 1993 the Michigan Militia guy I work with in Electronics at Walmart tries to recruit me—unsuccessfully. The video he showed me does...

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Issue 12.2, Early 1983

Table of Contents Poetry Lucille Day, “Tumor” John B. Rosenman, “Waiting” “The Poet” “This Poem” Edward C. Lynskey, “Chewing Gum Poem”...

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To Finally Embrace Living

Nick Kowalczyk   That Tuesday morning I awoke with an aching body and yellow shit clumped around my eyes and caked across my temples like two dried-out streams during a summer drought. It was...

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Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (Complicated Grief)

Chelsea Dingman   “The truth is, that every death is violent.”-Samuel Johnson Then, let me know the violence of the last day of sun. The violence of a thousand orphaned forget-me-nots,...

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