Tag: Issue 3

  • Evening

    Wood, cardboard, paper, paint 56″x 71″ 2015                  

  • Claire Falkenberg

    Claire Falkenberg

  • Michigan, 1998

    My brother and I still reminisce about the year we lived in another family’s attic. For months we dreamt about playing outside our faces pressed up like needy moths against the window’s wintery pane. Every chance he got, our stepfather reminded us to pipe down, our mother hinting for us to tiptoe along the attic’s…

  • Resounding

    When I said I am doing so well these days, what I meant is I will go back to a humble place. I will get a job in manual labor, in rugged red sand and plains towns. My book of instruction will read, How to Clean a Steam Train. All this, so I may live…

  • Michelle Askin

  • That Kind of Trouble Isn’t This Kind of Trouble

    Wednesday, 7:45 PM They leave the car running and duck into Kwik Trip for what Nate insists on calling “necessities.” He and Melanie walk the aisles slowly, trailing fingers over nonsense items: foam beer koozies, ping pong balls, flip-flops in the shape of Minnesota. Athlete’s foot medicine. Paper clips. Mints whose flavor is identified as “fart-taste.”…

  • Jessica Smith

    Jessica Smith grew up just outside of Buffalo, New York (which explains her eternal love for chicken wings and bleu cheese), and has lived and taught in Minnesota and Maine. She currently teaches writing and literature at Central Maine Community College and has had work published in Ruminate, The Louisville Review, Berkeley Fiction Review,The Portland Review, and Not Somewhere…

  • Inside/Out

    CAST Sam: Male, 25-30 years old, African-American. Jill’s husband. He’s in the third year of a four year prison sentence. Jill: Female, 25-30 year old, white, Sam’s wife. They have a seven year old son that she’s supported while waiting for Sam’s release. She’s a strong person, not a whiner or whimperer. SETTING All the…

  • Tom Coash

    Tom Coash is a New Haven, Ct. playwright and director. Prior to New Haven, he taught playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards, and his plays have been produced worldwide. His new full-length play VEILS is the Winner of the 2015 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award from the American Theatre…