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Fall 2018

Fall 2018 Featured Fiction

People Who Look Like People I Know | Jane Pek

December 24, 2018May 29, 2019
Jane Pek

I am twenty-four years old and I have lived for less than fourteen days. I have never seen the woman I am about to meet but she knows me intimately. What am I? Apparently he enjoyed these kinds of riddles, which is to say I enjoy them, or I should; […]

Fall 2018 Featured Poetry

Ten Theories | A. Molotkov

December 14, 2018May 29, 2019
A. Molotkov

Ten Theories 1 The street ends in a dead end, a space removed. Air currents flow around it. Fading gravity. You, inside, at least in theory. It takes a lot of bulbs to light the world. 2 I arrived before too early. I remember your birthmark. Now it’s no longer […]

Fall 2018 Featured Fiction

Tied Up With String | Kate Tough

November 28, 2018May 29, 2019
Kate Tough

Another thing Sheridan has never gotten used to about Ross is his expressionless sex face. He’s almost soundless, too, but that’s par for the course: guys rarely make much noise except when a few beers have featured (uh-UH-I’m gonna co-o-ome!). The exception was the one who’d moaned and bucked like […]

Fall 2018 Playwriting

September Mourning | Paul K. Smith

November 21, 2018May 17, 2019
Paul K Smith

SEPTEMBER MOURNING A Ten-minute, One-Act Ceremony in 3 scenes for 4 actors in a performance space: 1. “Arrival” 2. “Boy Meets Girl” 3. “A Day of Promise” First presented as “A Day of Promise in New York” at Players Theater, NYC, June 21-24, 2018. Produced with the same cast at […]

Fall 2018 Featured Poetry

Two Poems | O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

November 5, 2018May 30, 2019
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

my God says it’s not in my job description to stay clean. hygiene is monetized farce. a trick to keep soap & rehab & the church & conscience & your silence in business. i scrub my own tongue hard to a shiny silence. a bad childhood stuttering cannot be blamed. […]

Fall 2018 Featured Fiction

The Sinkhole | Joyce Li

November 1, 2018May 29, 2019
Joyce Li

ONE The sinkhole appeared without warning one night, opening up at the end of our driveway as if to swallow us whole. Anderson and I bought the house—a run-down Victorian in upstate New York—in the hopes of restoring it ourselves, but the plain truth was that it was in even […]

Fall 2018 Featured Poetry

Still | Katherine Gibbel

October 24, 2018May 30, 2019
Katherine Gibbel

Katherine Gibbel grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has been published in or is forthcoming from Bat City Review, The Bennington Review, Guesthouse, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received her MFA in […]

Fall 2018 Featured Poetry

The Man With Blue Eyes | Samantha Lê

October 24, 2018May 29, 2019
Samantha Lê

The Man With Blue Eyes i. legs like birch trunks stripped white by winter ginseng root toes mangled from wear chest scarred the color of wheat fields but he smears like wet ink when we touch ii. we celebrate the harvest moon forgetting to mourn the death of summer launched […]

Fall 2018 Nonfiction

An Interview | Edwidge Danticat

June 18, 2018June 7, 2019
Jivin Misra

As a writer, Edwidge Danticat is revered for her elegant prose and her moving depictions of Haiti and the Haitian diasporic experience. She has written more than a dozen books, including her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, which was an Oprah Book Club selection, and the memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, […]

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