Tag: Issue 3

  • Circumference

    We had never been inside such a place. We didn’t know why the owner was so angry. He yelled at our buddy Rob to stop filming. Rob slid the VHS recorder off his shoulder, swinging the bulky video camera like a lunch box, and stepped outside. He shot different footage. Once we left this city,…

  • Jon Pineda

    Jon Pineda is the author of the novels Let’s No One Get Hurt, winner of the 2019 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction and the Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award, and Apology, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize.   His poetry collections include Little Anodynes, winner of the 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Award, The Translator’s Diary, which received the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues…

  • Water Theory

    1. If the moon’s surface was composed of waves the way DaVinci thought, sun reflecting moon ocean and our dark seas’ slow shadow, borders might be in temperatures, in currents, in light—the fish sustaining themselves in the cold rock, the warped water, our planet at arms-length like a hot pearl. 2. During red tide, the…

  • Hero

    On a forest hike, a man and son stop for lunch. The boy lies back on a rock. They’ve planned to go home soon after tossing scraps. But the man has forgotten the way: the clouds peek over trees; the woman, once his wife, has left with someone else. In his hand, the father holds…

  • Jacqueline Balderrama

    Jacqueline Balderrama is an MFA candidate in poetry at Arizona State University where she teaches and serves as Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review and Iron City Magazine. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and are forthcoming in Blackbird and Cream City Review.

  • My Last Splurge

    May 30, ‘09. My last splurge in NYC was this 30-pound slab of wax. I paid $150 for it, and made this mystic writing pad. I thought I had enough trust fund money left to buy it, but I didn’t. Turns out I spent most everything on pastry trends: Bundt cakes, boxes of rainbow macaroons,…

  • Alicia Bones

    Alicia Bones is a second-year MFA student at the University of Montana. Previously, she earned her master’s degree in literature from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Maudlin House, Spry, Hello Horror, Matador Network, and elsewhere.

  • Mend the Envelope

    A One Act Play CAST OF CHARACTERS HENRY DAVIS ……………………. A man in his mid 30s JOANIE DAVIS …………………… His wife; in her mid 30s VOICE …………………………. Male Time: Sunday morning; pre-dawn; the end of October. Place: A small town outside Buffalo, New York. Setting: A dusty, dismal one-car garage in a pre-dawn glow. A…

  • Jason Lasky

    Jason Lasky is an American playwright and actor. His plays have been performed on three continents.  He is the co-founder of Shanghai’s critically-acclaimed independent theater, 5th Wall Theater, and he launched J. Lasky Productions in 2014 with an international collaboration for the first Shanghai Soundpainting Ensemble, of which he is its live composer.   Mend the…