“…when we met, she once told me that she lived her days in English but all her dreams were in French. And what happened—” He paused as emotion unexpectedly clogged his throat. He coughed to push the words through. “What happened to her…she did not deserve…”

Christopher Hadin teaches horticulture therapy/environmental enrichment for adults with disabilities. A graduate of Michigan State University, his work […]

The dream started when a woman with a dog on a leash asked me what kind of fish I was fishing for. Not realizing I was fishing until just that moment, I looked down to find a reel attached to a long rod with the butt end in my hands.

Pete Able’s stories have appeared in Philadelphia Stories, The Fiction Pool, Thorn Literary Magazine and HASH Journal, among […]

We have protected each other, watched out for each other and, hopefully, been reminded that we’ve always been in this together, even when we didn’t know it.

Brendan Hoffman is currently studying Creative Writing and Psychology at Western Washington University, in Bellingham, Washington. His story […]

Out of the corner of his eye, Max saw something move. His closet door was creeping open, the yawning mouth stretching wider and wider, until it ever so gently tapped up against the adjacent wall, and finally came to a stop.

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published […]

All that is left now/Is to climb over the tower/Using eyes that see beyond seeing/To find that there is no love on the other side/Just as none exists on this side.

James King is the author of the award-winning novel, Bill Warrington’s Last Chance, published by Viking/Penguin. His latest poem, […]