Genre Archive

Fiction

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:

Peace, Love, and a lot of Loud Rock & Roll

June 17, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Sunee Lyn Foley

Crosses to Pentacles

June 10, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Jazmine Cooper

Table to Trash

June 3, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Franz Franta

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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy

Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy

The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez

More coming soon!

Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Eggs, No Basket

June 27, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, CNF / Kelsi Long

The Revolution Began at Book Club

June 20, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Fiction / Sari Fordham

A Letter to the Dead Grandmothers That Raised Us

June 13, 2022/in A Transfer, Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Levi J. Mericle

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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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Word From the Editor

The variety in this issue speaks not only to the eclectic world we inhabit but to the power of the human spirit. We live in an uncertain world. In the U.S., we’re seeing mass shootings daily. Across the world, we’re still very much in a pandemic, some being trapped in their homes for weeks on end, others struggling to stay alive in hospitals. War continues to wage in Ukraine. Iran and North Korea are working diligently to make nuclear weapons. The list goes on. Still, we have artists who are willing and able to be vulnerable with one another, to share stories and art to help us try and make sense of our world.

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