Tag: Issue 10

  • Cardiomyopathy

    A waiting room at a hospital. Three people (A, B, and C) are sprawled out, waiting. It should be noted that none of these characters are gender specific, and may be cast in any way, though they have all been denoted as “she,” for simplicity and also as a sort of a screw-you to the…

  • Samantha Auch

    Samantha Auch is a poet, actor, and burgeoning filmmaker based in New York City. Her poem details was recently published by the Poeming Pigeon, and she has had other poems featured on Babbling of the Irrational and Lit.cat. The Company, her first self-directed/written/produced web series, is set to come out spring 2019.

  • Bedtime Story

    My father rapes me every night and I cry. I don’t like him in my bed—until I do. Poor child, so young, no voice, only legs spread, open and aching, I grow to love him. He yanks his pajama bottom strings leaving me alone in a puddle of goo.   Leaving me alone in a…

  • Viriginia Sutton

    Virginia Chase Sutton’s chapbook, Down River, was published last fall. Her second book, What Brings You to Del Amo, won the Morse Poetry Prize and is being re-issued by Doubleback Books. Embellishments is her first book and Of a Transient Nature is her third. Seven times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her poems have won…

  • The Tramp

    The first circus clown was a woman. Painting her face came easy to her; She had been doing it for years. Makeup made the scars go away, Or so she thought. Now, she wore it like war paint.   The giant red nose Held the broken one together. Like plaster from the doctor who believed…

  • Sneha Sundaram

    Sneha Sundaram is an engineer and a poet. Her poems have been published in Noctua Review, Jaggery, Whirlwind, JACLR by UC Madrid, Sonic Boom, among others. Her first book of poems will be published in 2019 by BombayKala Books.

  • When You Live in the Desert

    When You Live in the Desert

      Dad shows me how to skin the diamondback by the creek behind the house. He is kneeling in the mud, his boots pressing square stamps into the uneven riverbed. I killed the snake earlier that morning. I drove a shovel through its body. It lunged at me and I wasn’t scared then. I was…

  • Zack Butovich

    Zack Butovich is an MFA student in fiction at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he teaches composition and is one of the managing editors for their literary journal, the Blue Earth Review. He has had previous work published with The Citron Review, Arcturus, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He is currently at work on a…

  • Surviving the Flood

    I Arkansas and Tennessee in 1927   The Dakotas and Nebraska in 1993   Grandma on the roof, muddy cane and goodbye   Farms becoming reservoirs of mud   State Farm and Allstate prepping commercials   Waters recede along with college plans   Soybeans and hope are planted again   Bismarck shelters and Omaha warehouses…