the Thieving Magpie is now a feisty 5 years old!

Alice Kinerk earned an MFA in English and then spent several years raising babies and not writing much. […]

This was the Heather that Darien laid eyes on when he opened the door of the baling shed. She was sitting on the bench, appearing sad (he thought) not ill. She had the wide feet and downcast eyes of an NBA player on the bench as his team loses the game. That’s how Darien thought she looked. She had a scowl. Nevertheless, she looked beautiful.

Brent Short lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. His poetry chapbook, The Properties of Light was published […]

Who could see
in the murk of those first pictures
with their subdued browns,
dismal flat farmhouses,
overcast skies,
what was to come

Smitha Vishwanath is a blogger, artist, poet who moved to Bangladesh as an expatriate in October, 2022. These […]

I’m not an explorer
in search of a spark to ignite my soul
Nor am I an immigrant looking for another man’s soil
to crystallize my dreams; I am a shadow
I follow

Fernanda Hong was born in Costa Rica to Asian and Latino parents, and she has an MFA degree […]

A most unfortunate event took place the day that Isabel decided to take her grandfather on a trip to Caldera, a nearby port that the family used to visit.  She was in a hurry to get the trip over and done with, since a man by the name of Taylor Swift was going to buy the old Suburban. Her brother Fred decided to accompany them. They took great care to make the trip as comfortable as possible for the senior Mr. Quiñones.

Glenn Ingersoll works for the public library in Berkeley, California. Ingersoll’s prose poem epic, Thousand, is available from […]