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Something Like Forgiveness 4 Jul 2011 | 12:33 pm
What I will miss most of all, she said, setting down the tea, is his voice. He used to read while I cooked. Every day. She looked off into a corner of the room where she remembered his voice to be. ....
New Amsterdam, by Beth Harrison 3 May 2011 | 12:50 am
This would have been the year I was born. There’s a photo, a different photo, of a man on a riding mower in a wide field, a bassinet nearby. That’s him, and that’s me. Beyond him, beyond us, is a po...
Two Girls For Every Boy, by Mary Biddinger 7 Apr 2011 | 11:46 pm
They lied to you, and they lied to me, and they lied to the store clerk that nobody needed a gun around there, to every housewife in a long skirt who lingered too long at the front window, not checkin...
The Naming of Things 7 Apr 2011 | 08:47 pm
We walk slowly. Buying time. The studio is not far from here. We are huddled close under one umbrella, shoulder against shoulder, hands stacked one on top of the other, gripping the handle. Rain is ...
Finding Balance 6 Apr 2011 | 05:17 am
The wind crept into us off the ocean. We pulled our bodies around us tightly. We all shivered anyway. Despite our hats and scarves and sweaters. Despite the sun, the walking. We had been waiting pat...
Long After the Laughter, by Josh Gilb 5 Mar 2011 | 08:55 am
The music swells, the lights come up. The floor rises from the dark, becomes solid. The emptiness around you fills with faces. ____________ At the back of an old lot, through a hole in the fence, d...
Gabriel, by Deborah Poe 5 Nov 2010 | 01:01 am
Gabriel looked down at his hands. They were gnarled and scarred. He began to mentally compare his hands to Nora’s but stopped himself. Not a living thing moved in this mammoth building, except for him...
The Doe, by David Ryan 29 Oct 2010 | 10:45 am
Somewhere along the drive home it occurred to Wayne that science had rendered sixty the new middle age — or would, by the time he reached a-hundred-and-ten. He knew, too, that this improvised errand h...
Disruption of Memory, by Stephanie Cornell 21 Oct 2010 | 01:25 am
“I told him four times already.” “He doesn’t remember anything,” said my mother. “It’s from his accident.” Of course. The accident. I had missed so much in two years. “Oh, did he hit his head when h...
Dhonai Tells a Story, by Nitoo Das 20 Sep 2010 | 04:52 pm
It is best not to look at the crow now. With its five-fingered blast of wing, it can summon you into the geometric trickery of trident, cross and circle. And then, there is no escape. It is best not t...
