Tag Issue 25 Spring 2024
Go Ahead, Smell It

You totally get why the bees and bugs are drawn in too, so you don't mind them so much. We're...
Allison Cross – Essay

The sun, unrelenting now, hammers my head. Blooming white and lilac azalea flowers spill from ceramic pots that line the...
Michael Manerowski – Fiction

The next morning, he woke up at his usual, pre-dawn time. He cooked an egg and smeared butter on wheat...
Wendy Scheir – Fiction

The book was an entertaining read, though it left Jordy thinking of Grayson basically as a player with a God...
Salvatore DiFalco – 3 Poems

The plastic cup knocked over by the wind
startles you in mid-thought. It held
ashes that scatter over the parquet floor.
No need...
Linda Boroff – Fiction

Wasn’t that the story of her life? Currying favor that was never forthcoming? Jess at 13 buying lunch for the...
Mark Mullen – Fiction

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved the word “striking.” You see that word used about a lot...
Joe McAvoy – Fiction

Church bells rang out the noon Angelus. The ringing is automated now, someone told me. That’s not change. They still...
Sarah Hassan – Fiction

Learn to get just drunk enough in the morning that you have a headache by lunch time and cannot possibly...
Tony Van Witsen – Fiction

He undressed for bed that night feeling reluctant to examine himself in the mirror. He couldn’t even muster the courage...