Gabo Prize Winner
The Night Security Guard
Emil-Iulian Sude translated by Diana Manole
Missus doctor suspects us of good health
we’re easy to recognize
dressed in our work uniforms.
those fellas are security guards. if you give them
something to guard they think themselves gods. […]
Writing for Young People
If Tomorrow Even Comes
Miranda Scotti
I just want today to last forever.
The thought is pinwheeling in my head during my morning walk, when my phone buzzes in my pocket and breaks the loop. I stop under an oak tree to make sure it’s not an emergency, because my obsessive brain is always ready for bad news. As I tap the screen, a gravelly voice yells out behind me. […]
Diana Woods Prize Winner
She Will Rise
Denise Boivin
SHE
SHE purges into the porcelain bowl down the hall from the nurse’s station all the while wondering how can she still have morning sickness nine months and seven days into a pregnancy? […]
Fiction
What Tempts Our Wives
by Sarah Horner
My wife no longer washes her hands when she comes in from the garden. I find traces of earth around the house: dirty fingerprints on the refrigerator handle, last season’s leaves on top of the toilet seat, blood-like drops of tomato juice on the hardwood floor. […]
Poetry
Heaven, Perhaps
by Joseph Hardy
I think now of leaving something
behind without my name.
This house, with windows just replaced
to last another twenty years […]
Lunch Special
Betting On Your Authentic Self: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera
Interviewed by Paula Williamson
Cleyvis Natera, author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Neruda on the Park, studied literature and creative writing at Skidmore College and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from New York University. […]
Flash Prose
Irreconcilable Differences
by Glenn Orgias
I’m supposed to go straight from my cell to the return room, but I grit my teeth and etch my poem into the concrete walls of the clone factory. Someone, at some time, will read these poems and know that I too questioned my role.[…]
Interview
We Might See Ourselves: An Interview with James Yeh
Interviewed by Kevin J. Cummins
James Yeh, a writer, editor, journalist, and teacher based in Brooklyn, is a native of South Carolina. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Drift, Dissent, Taste Magazine, NOON, Puerto del Sol, Apogee, IMPOSE, BOMB, and Tin House. […]