Molly Quell is a writer and journalist. Her work has been published in Sci Fi Daily, Quantum Shorts, […]

You learn everything when you die. All of the secrets people kept from you. Where your childhood dog really went when he ran away. How your mother secretly pitied you for not being as pretty as she was in her youth. How genuinely proud your father was of you.

Christine Conner has been a writer all her life: She wrote and composed songs as a teenager which […]

Liz’s fiction has been published in SHALE, East Jasmine Review, and FRE&D. Her poems have appeared in West […]

Olivia Wyatt is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. She makes ethnographic films that focus […]

Bill Ratner’s personal essays and short stories are published in The Baltimore Review, The Coachella Review, Hobo Pancakes, […]

Des Moines is just a few degrees west of perfect south from Minneapolis – two-hundred thirty-four flat miles of corn, milo, wheat, beans, cabbage, spinach, and the occasional tall hemp plant which, if you smoked it you got a headache.

The sky flickered and then came those crooked currents of heaven. Like blue serpents thrown down by winged gods– to punish, to enlighten, to bless.

Summer 2018

Vanessa Poster, a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writer’s Collective, has studied Method Writing with Jack […]