Seven years goes by fast, doesn’t it?  It’s a lucky number and, since the die has been cast, there is no going back.  And since there’s no going back, we will shake those dice in our hot little claws and let it ride!

Amanda Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer and theater artist. Her nonfiction, fiction and poetry have appeared in Jewishfiction.net, Sylvia […]

Harvey Huddleston’s short fiction has appeared in The RavensPerch, Mystery Tribune and the Thieving Magpie, among many others.  He […]

On the runway before climbing up the tail-gunner tells me he has a bad feeling about this trip.  Says these 17s feel like a coffin to him and he’ll bail out at the first sign of trouble.  I say we all will as a last resort but he’s not listening so I shut up.

I brought Astro back to the car and told Matt. Without blinking, he said, “You have to save Astro’s life, and I’ll help you.” The drive to save Astro surpassed the pain of our failed romance. We were now just two people on a mission.

Bright sun. My eyes water. You are standing at the end of the point. On the horizon, Kirk and Matty float back-to-back on the inner tube, legs dangling in the cold water. A small finch lands on a bough of the spruce in front of me, and its weight reveals a linen shoulder–Anita’s shoulder–level with your knees.

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

Several years earlier, when I sat in traffic court, I found a woman guilty of speeding. I believed the officer, and since he’d cited her a block from my health club at about 4:50 pm, I had a hunch she was racing to a class there. “I find you guilty,” I said, then offered her traffic school. A month or so later, in my health club’s sauna, a man emerged from the steam and approached me. “Are you a judge?” he asked. Both of us were buck naked.

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

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