Genre Archive

Fiction

Issue 22: Winter/Spring 2023

What’s Left Beneath When All the Wishes Have Blown Away

December 4, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Diane D. Gillette

The Rucksack is Packed and Hidden in the Pantry

December 3, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rachel Laverdiere

Cat Wedding

November 13, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / E. P. Tuazon

Facsimile

November 12, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Tanya Žilinskas

Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Collision

June 2, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Claudia Schatz

Echolocation

May 25, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Miranda Williams

Issue 20: Winter/Spring 2022

Black & Blue

November 23, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2022 / J. T. Townley

Issue 19: Summer/Fall 2021

Keening

May 10, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Josh Denslow

Gap Year

May 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Franz Jørgen Neumann

Zoom Yoga

April 16, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Liza Monroy

March

April 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Bethany Reid

Issue 18: Winter/Spring 2021

Nagano

December 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / K-Ming Chang

Objects in Space

December 6, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Emily Davis

Bob’s Bass Turd

December 5, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / C. Christine Fair

In and Out

December 3, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Andrew Jacono

Life Stories

November 27, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / Taylor Mitchell

Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020

Bob’s Bass Turd

December 5, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / C. Christine Fair

How to Skin a Fox

June 13, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Kelly Gray

Sympathy for Wild Girls

June 12, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Demree McGhee

Fault Lines

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Thomas Pia

Jouma

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Dor Shilton

Feng Shui and Other Subversive Religions

June 9, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Yong Takahashi

Cappuccino Take U-E

June 7, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Christine Kandic Torres

Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Dog of War

December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Maria Zoccola

How to Be Royal

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Daniel Riddle Rodriguez

The Forgotten Voices

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily Mirengoff

Floating

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benjamin Selesnick

Capillary Action

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shanique Carmichael

A Brief History of Drills

November 30, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Paula Lynne

Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Red Bird Rising

May 27, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Deborah Kahan Kolb

Vows

May 25, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Dhaea Kang

When Light Is Put Away

May 24, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Heather Luby

Hiatus

May 23, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Aida Haddad, translated Mishka Mojabber Mourani

Beyond the Waters of Time

May 21, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Bhavika Sicka

Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

Laundry Lessons

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Jerilynn Aquino

Again Undine

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Devan Collins Del Conte

Making Reubens

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Teresa Milbrodt

Bandar

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Kailash Srinivasan

Do You Wanna Dance?

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Cynthia Sylvester

Walking Down the Grain

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Spencer Van Dyke

In the Yard

November 23, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Saba Waheed

Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Following Joey

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Arriel Vinson

Twelve Stories of Aleppo

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Jacob Schroeder

Бабий Яр [Babiy Yar]

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Jordan Faber

Chile, Wood Smoke, Masa

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Michele Wolfe

The Payphone

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Nicholas Olson

Hunter and Pray

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Anastasia Jill

Phone Voice

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Lindsay Rutherford

Cannonball

May 30, 2018/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Joliange Wright

Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Restless Dreams of Silence

November 26, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Wendra Chambers

Thirsty for Our Future

November 25, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Noah Dobin-Bernstein

Practical Knowledge

November 24, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Bill Gaythwaite

Planting Seeds

November 22, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jill Kiesow

You Don’t Have to Be So Afraid All the Time

November 21, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Douglas Koziol

Bruised Sage

November 20, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Sarah Lejeune

Fermenting Hearts

November 19, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Maxie Moua

One Librarian Survives the Apocalypse

November 19, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jennifer Pullen

Notes from My Hong Kong Travel Journal: Sightseeing with a Silver Comb

November 15, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Priyanka Sacheti

The Moon-Bright Smile Rebellion

November 12, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Catherine Adel West

Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

Find Your Happy Place

May 20, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Celeste Hamilton Dennis

Success Avenue

May 19, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Jessica Forcier

Dominoes

May 18, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Pia Ghosh-Roy

Sounds of Separation

May 17, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Sarah Kuntz Jones

Arroz y Dulce

May 11, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Rebecca Komathy

The Black and Invisible Butcher

May 10, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Jamal Michel

La Garroba

May 9, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Andres Reconco

Stages on Life’s Way

May 8, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Ridwan Tijani

Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Small Packages

November 25, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Mary Camarillo

The Grey-Haired Man

November 24, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Alison Gibb

The Do-Over

November 23, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Staci Greason

Broken Horns

November 22, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Blake Kilgore

Golem

November 21, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Taylor Kobran

I Don’t Know if I’m Dealing Very Well with Everything That’s Going On Right Now

November 19, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Yxta Murray

Since I Got Here

November 18, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Kevin Richard White

Don’t Say Anything

November 17, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Evan Morgan Williams

Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

The Day

May 7, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Timothy Caldwell

Warmbloods

May 6, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Thomas Cardamone

Death Roll

May 5, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by J.D. Shoemaker

Real Talk

May 4, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Nicole Simonsen

Fatima, the Biloquist: A Transformation Story

May 3, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Quilting Will Improve Your Health

December 4, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Melanie Anagnos

Hand Job

December 3, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Paul Beckman

Full of Foxes

December 2, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Keely Cutts

The Parable of Nick Burns

December 1, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Danny Judge

Want Cokes?

November 30, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Talar Malakian

Intervention

November 27, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Amy Foster Myer

Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

The Color of Love

May 30, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Julieanna Blackwell

Down from Sugar Mountain

May 29, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Katherine Forbes Riley

Contingencies

May 28, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Meghan Pipe

Pools, Crabs, and Wikipedia

May 27, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Benjamin Thompson

Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

How He Leaves You

November 26, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Ankita Rao

The Walls Are Too Blank, The Holes Are Too Deep

November 25, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Joe Baumann

The Wife of Michael Cleary

November 24, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Caitlin Keefe Moran

A Nest of Arms

November 22, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Boris Tsessarsky

Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Leaving

May 30, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by R. Peralez

You are a Woman

May 29, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Joseph Allan

Orientation Week

May 28, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Natalie Cornell

Swagger

May 27, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Scott David

How Not to Drown

May 26, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Janet Frishberg

The Average Man

May 25, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Rachel Heng

Peace Comes at a Cost

May 24, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Sally Lehman

Sometime Long Ago

May 23, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Bradford Philen

Rock of Ages

May 22, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Jonathan Rovner

Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Falling Is Like This

November 28, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Sara Rauch

First-Person Shooter

November 27, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Leland Cheuk

Goat Sucker

November 26, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by J.I. Daniels

Automicide

November 25, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Steve Gilmartin

Spiders Are Not People

November 24, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Kelsie Hahn

Homeland

November 23, 2013/in Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Christopher Linforth

Too Old for War

November 22, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Frank Scozzari

A Little Give

November 21, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Hilary Tellesen

An Axe to Grind

November 20, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by J.M. Venturini

Anchor Bright

November 19, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Alice Zhu

Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

A-B-A

May 30, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Nicholas T. Brown

Legs

May 29, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Andrew Battershill

Smith Hill

May 28, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Cathleen Calbert

The Postcards

May 27, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Jacqueline Doyle

The Recluse

May 26, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Tristen Matthew Fournier

The Yin-Yang Market

May 25, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Khanh Ha

Heimlich

May 24, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Anne Lévesque

Take It From Me, Kid, I’m a Clown

May 23, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Christopher Linforth

Dunn

May 21, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Walter Gary Robison

This Once, My Story

May 20, 2013/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Evan Morgan Williams

Issue 2: Winter/Spring 2013

Undone

November 28, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Talya Jankovits

Art History

November 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Ted Jean

Placement, or The Sound of Caves

November 24, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by D. E. Lee

Me After You

November 23, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Erin Kilian

The Cat Psychic

November 23, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Victorya Chase

Palsied

November 21, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Robert Sobel

What Happens When Something Happens

November 21, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Daniel Davis

It Ends the Way It Always Ends

November 21, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Rita Ciresi

Balkan Voodoo

November 21, 2012/in Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Marija Stajic

Edenfield

November 14, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Robert Smith

Issue 1: Spring 2012

Echolocation

May 25, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Miranda Williams

Acrocomia aculeate

May 26, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Jennifer A. Orth-Veillon

This Is Chicken Country

May 25, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Jessica Pitchford

Feng Shui

May 25, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Diane Payne

Flash Pieces

May 25, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Kyle Hemmings

Knuckles

April 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Jenny Dunning

A Dry and Level Space

April 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by Terry Sanville

The View

February 15, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Spring 2012 / by LaToya Watkins

Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

Today’s course:

The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi

From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos

Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire

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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez

The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages

Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin

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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt

Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli

Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple

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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk

A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail

Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran

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