Category: Online Issues

In Martinsville (2021)

Chanlee Luu a church on nearly every block: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Evangelical. She doesn’t know the difference; what she does remember is the Bible quotes inserted—editing...

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Anne Anthony

“Lonesome” Photography Anne Anthony is a digital collage artist living in North Carolina. Her artwork graced the covers of two literary journals, Cracked the Spine and Bartleby Snopes....

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Robert de Niro

Phoebe Phelps I fell in love when I was twenty-nine and he was thirty-two, a respectable age difference. Preferable, actually, because they say men mature more slowly than women. And just in time...

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Talitha May

“Pacific Waterleaf” Photography Talitha May is a Portland, Oregon based artist who teaches at Portland State University. Her work appears in Composition Studies, The Shanghai Literary...

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self-portrait with three hands

p. hodges adams 2024 Poetry Spring Contest Winner the first hand had square knuckles, like a boy;  the second hand could hold a teacup neatly; the third hand was furious. i’m getting ahead of...

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Field Notes on Being

Rebecca Bernard They agree to meet on instant messenger at midnight. He’s usually on AIM at that hour, gifted with a computer in his bedroom, but she must sneak to the family computer, mute the...

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Sometimes he calls out for Baby. Sometimes Baby runs

Sara Burge down our street screaming, his voice chasing like a pissy wasp. Sometimes he’s an Apache helicopter. Sometimes Baby’s a mouse on a rug. Sometimes their fights are a riff on last...

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Fourteen to Twenty-Nine

Dawn Miller Jack arrives home from university even though it’s not yet spring break. He’s thinner than before he left, his elbows pointed like the sharp angles of the engineering caliper he...

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Discount Tobacco, Cold Beer Cave

Samuel Ellington And the barn on my left reads get right with God. There’s a gravel-road token that we can make home. Cut grass, gasoline, and I laughed when they told me the Lord is three...

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Idaho Wolves

Kath Richards 2024 Fiction Spring Contest Winner I’ve heard about dissociation, the way our minds can protect us from pain and trauma by removing us, at least mentally and momentarily, from a...

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