I wanted a girl and I needed one by morning. I called out to the wind: “Will someone give me a chance?” I was met only by silence. “You are too much alone,” my sons said, meaning my home-making, my afternoons of
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Cover art by Mijmark. Mijmark (mïj’-mark): n, adj., adv. Random origins. Describes a quality of a surreal contradiction ofterms that became reality. 1) Not just a pseudonym; its subsequent meaning cannot truly be defined. To describe that polarization existing between meanings, how
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The first night I saw him, the moon hung in the stars like a massive eye, and the wind crooned at my window like the voice of a lost lover. I woke with a rumbling stomach and stumbled through the curtain separating
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Sergio the Bailador by Brenda Gutierrez Chicken by Christopher Labaza Final Emancipation by Stephen M. Pierce Those Who Love Us by Bruce McAllister The Hollow Face by Paul Stansbury
This is a true story. As true as stories can be. Sergio was the neighborhood dancer. He’d show up to all the kickbacks, functions, and celebrations with a twelve-pack of Bud Light sitting on top of his left shoulder, ready to get
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It took them three tries to kill the woman with bougainvillea in her arms. She was a nuisance—she left papery-pink petals everywhere, which the wind would take until there were pieces of her drying and crumbling all over town. One man claimed
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I peek through the door of my daughter’s bedroom and find her sitting on the edge of her bed, rocking back and forth, back and forth, humming a soft and comforting melody. In her arms, she cradles her own daughter, a tiny
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Hooked by Elijah Woodruff Frederick Guttzeit by Paul Smith Memory Ghost by Kat Caldwell Flesh and Blood by Grace Tynski Crab by Ace Chu
Joe and Audrey reached 57 Oracle Road. A skeletal fist punched through the center of the teardrop-shaped gate, its index finger curling upwards. A jack-o’-lantern filled with orange and black sweets hung from the finger. Above it, a cardboard sign read: Help
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Polar bears like to go dancing in the shallowest bend of the Biekenfau River. They splash gaily in the rocks. They wave colored flags on wooden sticks. They wear coral tutus and bang on tambourines. The bears come to dance at night
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