Tag: Issue 7

  • Julia Koets

    Julia Koets’ poetry collection, Hold Like Owls, won the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and was published by the University of South Carolina Press. Her poetry and nonfiction essays have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Portland Review. She has an MFA in poetry from…

  • A KIND OF MARRIAGE

    E.M. Forster, the great British novelist and champion of individual liberty and responsibility lived a homosexual life concealed from the public eye. In 1931, at the age of 52, Forster takes as his lover, a young London policeman Bob Buckingham who in turn begins a passionate relationship with a young nurse, May Hockey. Forster, along…

  • Charles Leipart

    Charles Leipart’s work has appeared in the Bayou Magazine, the Jabberwock Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Panolpy Literary Zine, and the Eastern Iowa Review. He also writes for the theatre; Cream Cakes in Munich, 1st Prize Award 2016 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Charles is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former fellow of the Edward…

  • PUT ME TO SLEEP

    Chef slams the skillet down and barks something about being low on eggs. Four tickets in my apron means he’ll need another carton. Not that I’ll fetch it for him. I stay on my side of the kitchen. One time, a nurse said Saddam Hussein saved bread crusts for the birds. In jail, without the…

  • Lauren Davis

    is a poet living on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorian seaport community. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her work can be found in publications such as Prairie Schooner, Spillway, and Split Lip Press. She has received a residency at Hypatia-in-the-Woods. She also teaches at The Writers’ Workshoppe in Port…

  • THE ADULTS

    On Saturday morning, I sit in bed and scroll through my phone and try to remember when, exactly, weekends became something to be endured. I text Madeline to ask if she and her girlfriend, Lauren, are going to Alice’s birthday party. Madeline is the one friend I have who does not require a week’s notice…

  • Sarah Mollie Silberman

    holds an MFA from George Mason University and lives in Virginia. Her stories have appeared in Booth, CutBank, Nashville Review, Puerto del Sol, Yemassee, and elsewhere.

  • BLOODLINE

                    For Izzy The day that my insides                 became my outsides (the brown mess clotted  under my freckled nose lips curdled with curious disgust) I stared at my older sister      your mother  as she brushed her wet hair …

  • Stephanie Johnson

    is a Pushcart Prize nominated author, a finalist for the 2016 Claire Keyes poetry award, and winner of the 2017 Lumina Poetry Prize. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Passed Note. Her work has been published by Penny, Banshee and QU, among others. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband and their…