Summers used to feel longer.  Open playgrounds hosting sweaty cheeks and hot sneakers.  Public pools full of chlorine […]

Tony Van Witsen is a recent resident of Atlanta Georgia and has been writing fiction for approximately fifteen […]

Cary Grossman is short, and generally covered with dog hair, but not a dog.  He has worked as […]

The doctor, who had been perched on the edge of his seat, now sat back.  “Well, with humans, it can take weeks, months, sometimes even years before they start telling the truth.”

     “They lie to you?”

     “To themselves.”

Vivian Lawry’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than seventy literary journals and anthologies, from Adanna […]

He looked up from zippin his fly an I guess he could see I weren’t convinced, ’cause then he said, “I wouldn’t want you followin in my footsteps in most things—card sharpin can be mighty dangerous an drink can ruin a man ’bout as quick as anythin—but I hope you’ll heed what I say about how to treat women—whether we’re talkin ’bout one woman or a hundred, ’bout one night or fifty years.  Now you just set there a minute an hear me out.”

Orit Yeret is a writer, artist and teacher. Born and raised in Israel, she currently lives in the […]

Furious, Sasha stormed to the window and looked down at the neighbor’s yard. It seemed as though they had completely ignored their earlier conversation and were allowing their dog to roam around freely once again. Sasha couldn’t believe it.

“Those motherfuckers,” she muttered to herself.

When Ephron began regularly writing essays for Esquire the 1970s, she must have felt a pull toward the world of quality journalism, or perhaps the editors wanted someone who could write about women’s issues for a male audience. Perhaps both. Something about these circumstances, writing for a primarily male audience about issues that interested her as a woman may have shaped the way she used tone to convey an attitude. The breezy, flippant tone of such articles as “A Few Words About Breasts,” employs humor to talk about what was beginning to be called “the male gaze.”

Ned Kraft worked as a librarian for the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Department of State.  He has […]