William Doreski has published three critical studies and several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in many […]

Today a rainstorm replete
with wind as brisk as politics.
Histrionic trees will flail
and shed their excess baggage,
Perhaps electric power will fail
and I’ll have to stoke the generator.

Mick McGrath was born in Canada and moved to the United States when he was eighteen. He has […]

Between you and me, I hadn’t had a woman since the Obama Administration, and it was nice not being lonely for a change, and I’d worried I was going to spend the rest of my life alone, and some nights, Jamie would stay over, and she would sleep in my bed (her body so warm, a radiator), wearing nothing but her CPAP machine

William Feustle lives and writes in Baldwin, Maryland. His fiction has previously appeared in various anthologies, magazines and […]

Katherine takes a large sip of bourbon. The little garland of lip prints decorating the rim of the glass is almost complete.  She must be trying to make it, there’s no way it’s an accident. She fixes me with her eyes.  “R. U. N. V. S.” 

I pull my eyes away and look at Robert. He’s staring at Emily’s legs. 

Duane currently lives in La Vista, NE, and volunteers with the American Red Cross as a Donor Ambassador […]

It made her smile knowing that she did a fine job at sticking me with the needle, being a pro that she was, and it probably didn’t hurt that I had large veins

I love Jesus though we’ve never met, I wonder if He’d say the same about me but at Sunday School I’m told that He knows all about me or at least more than I do about Him

Weren’t we supposed to hear only birds chirping and grass growing? It turns out that power mowers and leaf blowers give jackhammers and car alarms a run for their money, especially leaf blowers with their incessant roaring.