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Shoshauna Shy – Fiction

Bright sun. My eyes water. You are standing at the end of the point. On the horizon, Kirk and Matty...

Anthony J. Mohr’s work has appeared in, among other places, Cleaver, Commonweal, Cumberland River Review, DIAGRAM, Hippocampus Magazine, Los Angeles…

Several years earlier, when I sat in traffic court, I found a woman guilty of speeding. I believed the officer,...

Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and poet. His recent work can be found in Ponder Review, Susurrus Magazine,…

As soon as the lesson is learned
it’s a rock littering the side of the road
next to the Watch for Falling...

Paul Smith writes poetry & fiction and is a regular contributor to the Thieving Magpie. He lives in Skokie, Illinois…

I can feel it coming\the last one\the lungs tip it off\coughing\pushing that last bit of\atmosphere up up and away

Diane Webster’s work has appeared in Old Red Kimono, North Dakota Quarterly, New English Review, Studio One and other literary magazines. She…

She washed the bar of soap\with my saliva as I spit\black and green in the sink\and thought,\“This tastes like shit!”

Michael New studied with James T. Farrell. He worked as the managing editor of the Country Gentleman magazine. His story…

She stood out of her chair under the fruitless mulberry tree and strolled over to the century plant. She paused,...

B. P. Gallagher holds a Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the University at Albany and is Assistant Professor of Psychology…