Tag: Issue 10

  • Zac Thompson

    Zac Thompson is a playwright and travel writer living in New York.

  • At Rodin’s House

    Bodies tangled like tonsils, two stones claiming space Deep in our throats. My eyes met yours across vacant pews In memory of unsacred chapels, those looks locked into arms race of clenched toddler fists. And your grin unscrupled statues   The museum sign warned us not to touch. The ways You feigned misunderstanding the language…

  • Alina Stefanescu

    Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Alabama. Find her poems and prose in recent issues of Juked, DIAGRAM, New 65 South, Mantis, VOLT, Cloudbank, New Orleans Review Online, and others. She serves as poetry editor of Pidgeonholes and president of the Alabama State Poetry Society. Her first fiction collection, Every Mask I…

  • Bourbon

    The universe began as a grain so dense its burden was precisely the blossom of existence. Bourbon begins as at least 51% corn. The mash is gathered, ground, & slurried to sourness, consumed by yeast & funneled into copper pots that rely on nothing but fire to yield clear liquor then calmed by years in…

  • Sam Wilder

    Sam Wilder was raised in Boone, NC, and Marietta, OH, the product of two staunch regions of Appalachia, and he bears that heritage with honor. He went back to Boone for undergrad, and earned his BS in Journalism before moving to Washington, DC, to earn his MFA in Fiction from American University. He currently lives…

  • The Sadness Scale, As Measured by Stars and Whales

    It’s easy enough to find, sadness, for there are so many stories of it disseminated on social media we might all stay quivering in our small rooms for as much time as we have left. In only the last week, besides the politics and polemics, the pipe bombs and opioid epidemic, I’ve learned that we…

  • Paul Crenshaw

    Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collection This One Will Hurt You, published by The Ohio State University Press. Other work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, anthologies by W.W. Norton and Houghton Mifflin, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Tin House, North American Review and Brevity, among…

  • George Washington

    The first President of the United States owned slaves & although he did release them upon his death while he was alive he would take their teeth & attempted to graft them into his gums undergoing bold & radical surgery even by today’s standards   It is doubtful that anyone willingly had their teeth pulled…

  • Jason Arment

    Jason Arment served in OIF as a Machine-Gunner in the USMC. He’s earned an MFA in CNF from VCFA. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, the 2017 Best American Essays, The New York Times, among other publications and on ESPN. His memoir, Musalaheen, stands in stark contrast with other narratives about Iraq, in…