Tag: Issue 7

  • DOCTOR, DOCTOR

    He was dissecting a cat when I arrived for the interview. The lab-coated doctor sat hunched over the splayed legs of an immobilized gray kitty. I looked away. This wasn’t what I had signed up for. He was supposed to be a neurologist, not a vet. “You the gal they sent to take Mary’s place?”…

  • Renee C. Winter

    is a memoirist whose essays have appeared in the 2016 anthology Tales of Our Lives: Reflection Pond (Knowledge Access Books) and another is forthcoming in Coachella Review. She has also presented her work at the annual “Celebration of the Muse” event honoring female writers living in the Santa Cruz, California. A retired attorney, she currently…

  • KHALASS (ENOUGH)

    Characters: Sara–American woman, 20-40 years old. Khalid-Egyptian man, 20-40 years old Setting: The top of the great pyramid of Egypt. Full moon. Time: Night. (Night. Full moon. On top of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Spooky and beautiful at the same time. The top of the pyramid is an uneven surface of worn stone blocks,…

  • 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, including the Osborn Award from the National Theatre Critics Association, the Clauder Competition, and an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award. His plays have been produced worldwide.…

  • THE TOUR GUIDE AND I

    make eye contact when I nod  as I recognize the Spanish  word for lunch.  He makes special jokes  for the Spanish speakers.  I know enough to know that.  He stands at the front of the bus,  in English tells us the Mayan word  for Jaguar, the four types  of cenotes, the ways we  will experience…

  • Alexis Kruckeberg

    Alexis Kruckeberg is an M.F.A. candidate at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she teaches composition and creative writing. She has served as a reader for The Blue Earth Review and Bull: Men’s Fiction. In her spare time, she cooks more food than is necessary for two people and daydreams about Mexico. Her poetry has appeared in…

  • BROTHERHOOD

    I wear my brother’s grief with the story of  my past: the character  in a hospital gown spinning around pretending to flip pancakes, being told: “You will not remember  this.”— People still claim: “He does not remember much,” but no space held there for me to reply, no  air to fly, ground to  land or…

  • Z.G. Tomaszewski

    ​ Z.G. Tomaszewski is the author of three books of poems: All Things Dusk, Mineral Whisper, and River Nocturne (forthcoming 2018). He lives happily, for now, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

  • AESTHETIC COULD KILL ME

    I know this from looking                           into store fronts                           taste buds voguing alight from the way treasure glows                           when…