Category: Online Issue Pieces

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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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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Uee Jung

“Portrait with Green Background” “Still with Bottles”...

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Bānbishn

“Stoning to Death” BĀNBISHN was the Middle Persian title of the Sasanian Queens of Iran. The full version of the title was bānbishnān bānbishn (“Queen of Queens”). She believes...

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Sarah-Jane Crowson

“The Other Clouds” Sarah-Jane Crowson SARAH JANE CROWSON’s work is inspired by fairytales, nature, psychogeography, and surrealism. She uses bricolage to explore the space between real...

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María DeGuzmán

“Sorollan Improv” María DeGuzmán MARÍA DEGUZMÁN is a scholar, photographer, writer, and music composer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art...

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