Gnarly Tree at the Grand Canyon in Winter Sky Digital photography Michael C. Roberts is a retired professor of clinical child psychology, who painted rocks during the pandemic and dropped them around...
All Eyez on Me Oil paint Cycles Oil paint Amuri Morris is an artist based in Richmond, VA. She recently graduated from painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout the...
“Extended Stay” Collage Kale Hensley is a West Virginian by birth and a poet by faith. They live in Texas with their wife, best friend, and a menagerie of clingy pets. You can find more...
Samantha Zabell 9:02 pm I am throwing a funeral for a constellation and if no one comes I will feel like such an idiot. And not just because I went to Heinen’s and bought a whole sheet cake that...
AnnElise Hatjakes Every summer, Reno, Nevada and the High Eastern Sierra foothills it’s nestled within are a tinderbox. The fires are measured by the number of structures they threaten and acres...
Barbara T. Parker You are allowed one drink only, so make it count. My secret mission. I’m on my way to Old Town, the first night out since I became a shadow, abruptly and irreversibly over...
James Gianetti My parents struggle to tell me something while we have Christmas dinner. They avoid it between cleared throats, sips of wine, and futile conversation about inflation and how warm it is...
Jumaana Abdu 2025 Fiction Contest Winner Luqmān waited until Hābil was dead before he took stock of their camp. There was an eagle at the mouth of the cave with a brown snake under its claw. It...
Lydia Kim Every few days, a hair pokes up from the glossy surface of the hairline pimple she popped. It had crusted over like a manhole cover, then healed and left a slight, smooth curve. She pulls...
Jaime Gill September Well, this was a bloody stupid idea. About two months ago, you said, half-joking I think, that I should hire a therapist. “Don’t be absurd,” I said. “I’m...
