Take Something Ugly
A window gave back the sky, but the window itself wasn’t ugly, just the building it was in. She saw the sun glinting off a piece of broken glass, turning...
Weird Acrylics
Sassi makes his acrylics using both positive and negative homemade stencils along with found tiny objects like nuts, bolts, rings, clips, circlips, washers,...
A Bridge and a Bouquet
I wasn’t even sixteen yet, and I could see my mother’s expression of ‘my daughter is getting older’. I didn’t know whether to shift my...
A Reader’s Choice
What do you all think about Hemingway’s statement? This way of putting the choice on the reader? Are there any contemporary examples that ask something...
i shoot horses
I shoot horses. Or, I have.
I have shot horses. I have stood on a hill
and written you a long and involved letter
regarding my feelings....
The Little Chairs
The men in my family are gone. My uncle, a software programmer for IBM who made the same Thanksgiving dinner every year since 1987 from a menu in Esquire,...
How much does the audience get to know?
And yet on the other hand, being a memoir writer apparently, to a lot of people, means that your entire personal life is fair game. Because...
Contest Submissions Now Open! — UPDATE
Fiction judged by David Means
Poetry judged by Matthea Harvey
Nonfiction judged by Mary Roach
POETRY AND NONFICTION NOW EXTENDED TO DEC 31...
The Past in Nonfiction
Suzanne Berne writes about her search for a grandmother she never knew, a mother her father never knew: her grandmother died when her father was a little...