Category: Online Issue Pieces

A River’s Continuum

Celia Cummiskey A young Roman woman walks along the bank of the river Tamesis. She is thinking perhaps of her parent’s home some hundreds of miles away from Londinium where she now lives, or of...

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Nataliia Burmaka

“The Golden Net” “The Mallows (Nostalgia)” Nataliia Burmaka NATALIIA BURMAKA graduated from the National Studio of Fine Arts of Boris Danchenko (Sumy, Ukraine) in 1999 and worked...

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Leslie Brown

“Lock In” Leslie Brown LESLIE BROWN lives in the Washington, DC area. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Her published work crosses creative disciplines including short...

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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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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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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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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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No Wolves in the Woods

Jared Povanda When your sister married Charlie, you wanted to punch him. Do you remember the weight of my arms around your middle? That ficus in the huge terracotta pot scratching our faces? The hall...

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French Sardines

Rosa Lane After Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!” (249)              French sardines arrive from Boston, tin- plated. Maggie levers her can...

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