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That’s Twice Now by Leah Christianson

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Earlier in the evening, they had dinner with friends. She made a salad and he picked up a red blend from McEachern’s. She hadn’t liked…

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Fading by Sherri Ellerman

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

I have watched her die every day for 6 months.  I love her more because we are losing her yet hate her for leaving us. …

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Mr. and Mrs. Barrow by Brandon Madden

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

I pulled my car into the driveway of a bird blue bungalow. The screen door opened slowly, and a tiny, hunched woman walked out. Simply…

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When Harry Met Sydney by Walter Pierce

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Harry was sitting on a park bench soaking-up some of that free Vitamin D doctors were telling folks to absorb this time of year. The…

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The Glance by Alexander Pyles

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Eyes met, glance away, and then meet again.  An awkward dance, like junior-high students mingling, yet it still caused Luke’s heart to jump.  The eyes…

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Finals by Khristian Smith

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

“What a sunset,” I coughed. I do not know why I remember this, but I recollect my deplorable health. Nulling stress, little sleep, sparse food,…

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The Wedding by Shiv Dutta

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Our wedding took place on a July evening in Kolkata, a couple of months before Chhoton and I were to depart for Canada. On that…

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Milkweed Butterflies by Mary Lu Perham

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Pleasant Valley Township, where I spent my childhood, produced tremendous crops of milkweeds, which loved the sandy loam soil. From springtime on, pastures and ditches…

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WHIPPER SNAPPERS by Shareen Knight

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Oh you young whippersnappers, vampires flinging down your words like petticoats, not stones, don’t call your mother a whore and stop blaming my generation for…

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Twelve by Bailey Bloyd

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Embrace the body. Embrace the overdeveloped, underappreciated goddess that you are. There is no manual for what you have. You have this vessel that men…

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Uncle Archie by Iain Macdonald

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Like nearly all the island lads he couldn’t swim a stroke, yet brought his skin back whole from three straight sinkings on the Murmansk Run.…

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A Month of Masks by Katherine Yets

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

My boyfriend left me and thought it was a good idea to send me a picture of himself every day. This was over a year…

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June Evening Along the Glen by Megan Duffy

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

I do not want ties. The branches of the linden angle down here, do not move but for the wind. The sinking sun is mindless—it…

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Banjo Birds and Circles by Dah Hemler

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

Outside, at this café, the muddled noise from so much chatter. The color of the sky is a blue circle. At the same time, a…

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Raptor by Wendy Ingersoll

by adminPosted onMay, 2014February, 2018

By the river, a great smudge of dusky bird abruptly separates from the oak— a bald eagle, beating at the breeze.  I break into a…

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Woman in a Tree by Alex Austin  

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

When Hugh next met Sumiko at a club in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, he was singing Elvis Costello’s “Allison” through a defective karaoke stage…

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The Honolulu Mermaid by Michael M. Pacheco

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

Soft waves lapped the cream-colored beaches of Waikiki. It was a silent, scented evening Cameron knew could only be found in this part of the world.…

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Two Poems by Emily Strauss

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

“Night Driving” imagining buffalo herds grazing under the moon’s white haze the grasses dipping to the rifling breeze, or stars behind the drifting clouds after…

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Two Poems by Charles Thielman

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

“Layer Ink Over Caesura” Caught shooting the sun’s tangent through the smoked filters of his instrument, his gaze bores inside flame. He postcards thoughts across…

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Thinking About God by Peter Schaller

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

Is it wrong to think about God when you’re lying on a bed in a cheap motel room with a heart recessed into the ceiling,…

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Things to Do Before an Apocalypse by Scott Volz

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

Forget the bucket lists: We’re talking bunker lists— predictions of The End more regular than a man who takes his Metamucil. True, theories thus far…

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all that glitters by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens  

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

I saw a sparkly backpack in front of me and didn’t know where to turn.  The canvas was black but consumed by clear gemstones two…

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Two Poems by Jessica Williams

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

“Tangerine Peace” In my youthful hubris I was apt to think that the self was the epitome of all this substance that I was no…

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Two Poems by Frank de Canio

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

“Passing Muster” You glowed in Shakespeare’s Measure play with art enough to make me wish you were my wife. And yet you parlayed Isabella’s part,…

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Secrets (at sixty) by George Bishop

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

When the day’s finished coming apart, I kick what’s empty all the way to bed, or stand and stare through the eyes of a penny…

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The Wanderer by Vito Racanelli  

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

George wore his favorite suit, his only suit, for the interview. It was brown corduroy. He’d owned it for years, though he hadn’t much call…

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If You Listen Close Enough, You Can See by Jos O’Connell

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

There is an old man that comes and sits in his car on the hill top overlooking Lake Alan every Tuesday night.  I know this because…

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The Man Who Hated Dogs by Jean Venable

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

Dogs were without question at the top of the list. But there were other creatures for whom he had little affection as well: Deer, for…

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The Pottery Barn Look by Wes Adamson

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

The man…his face was one you could get lost in. His face shared the daily wear of years of gazing…pondering…and being encompassed by the blistering…

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Sound by Jacquelyn Mixon

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

It was a gray afternoon with clouds filling the sky. The air was damp and would have been chilly if not for the constant breathe…

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Better Late Than Never by Kelly Butler  

by adminPosted onMarch, 2014February, 2018

I walked to school every day until I was ten years old. In the late summer, when school was just beginning, the air was warm…

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The Bofors by Kevin Tosi  

by adminPosted onNovember, 2013February, 2018

Before the drought, at this point of the trail, Andrew could remember the sky becoming nothing more than speckles of blue light that glimmered through…

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Two Poems by Gene Goldfarb

by adminPosted onNovember, 2013February, 2018

“Coke in Amazonia” The farms swam quietly past our bus window surrendering to a rainforest of fig and sandpaper trees on an endless tongue of…

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the poverty of philosophy by Howie Good

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

I waved a dollar out the window. We brushed hands as he took it. Thank you, he said. I said nothing, just rolled my window…

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Helping a Football Player Write a Poem by Tim Suermondt

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

He insists on confessing “I’ve never gotten poems” and he’s both surprised and pleased when I tell him “Sometimes neither have I.” I assure him…

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Searching For Spring by Kathryn Jacobs

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

Still cold enough for gloves. So pushing through the weeping willow curtains meant bamboo hung segmented and winter-colored, chains that swallowed something lumpy – strings…

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Inheritance by Brad Garber

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

“Grab your drink.   Let’s go for a ride” We walked down to the fishing boat my dad and I, walleye and northern ball-player doctor, runner attorney.…

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Crystal Vases by Brad Garber

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

I keep adding to the weeds next to the window where they block the sun that once dried them and keep my home cool. Soon…

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Rogers and Me by Connolly Ryan

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” ― Fred Rogers Whenever I put on my…

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Storm Warnings by Deborah Purdy

by adminPosted onJune, 2013February, 2018

Since yesterday tea leaves tremble in the clouds, clues we don’t notice dance closer to the surface, blind to the symptoms of a cyclone A…

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