Tag: 52.2

Max Cavitch

“Monochromata 1” “Monochromata 2” Max Cavitch MAX CAVITCH is a writer, teacher, and photographer living and working in Philadelphia. Recent and forthcoming exhibits and publications of his...

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Home is a Holiday

Mohamed Morshed Mustafa emerged from the tunnel that led him out of the airplane and stepped into the airport. There were numerous lines of people facing glass booths; he joined the shortest line,...

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The Cicada

Anna Laura Reeve                    The dog-day cicada’s screech pierces  noon air Trees ...

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Pearl River

Stacey Balkun even after the sun lifts  & does its best to burn off the fog risen around our clearing  it clings to the banks bruised by your hipbones  by the hard ground still...

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When Your Ex-Fiancé Calls

Bellee Jones-Pierce When your ex-fiancé calls you should be busy.   Let him feel the lush delight of interrupting  something. Have soapy hands, something risky  and pungent...

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Sometimes the Going

Leigh Claire Schmidli It’s not often the case, but we’re all hungry for dinner about the same time that night. Me and Anka, my landlady. Her fat-cat Bazo. We collide in the tiny kitchen, circling...

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Pastoral Fragment

Rachel RothenbergWinner of the 2023 Greg Grummer Poetry Prize Somerset County, Pennsylvania Half a cow is disappeared from the farm in Berlin, a two-ton Holstein, it makes  the paper. Gone the...

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Solve

Jeremy Griffin Runner-Up 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Rick is traveling east on his motorcycle at 45 miles per hour. Wind speed is 6 miles per hour. He left Sierra’s five minutes ago at 3:05 PM....

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Inheritance

Rebecca Faulkner I am trying to remember —  corners of your newspaper curled  in a November breeze, mothballs  in your herringbone tweed. Stubborn  grief, my coat pulled tight....

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All Bleeding Eventually Stops

Leslie Doyle My youngest brother, Jim, is looking really weird up there at the altar right now. Rocking on his heels nervously but also yawning like he’s about to fall asleep. As if he’d just...

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