Fiction: “A Crushing Beauty” by Kelly Lynn Thomas

Mia has been dead for weeks, but she can’t bring herself to leave Nowhere, Pennsylvania. When it had become clear … More

Brad Rose: Two Poems

In Media Res Everything on this planet fails fails in the middle even death your life is death’s failure but … More

In Defense of Clouds the absence of caterpillar time— / weighted under a weightless sky, / the ibis eyeing a … More

the last scientist does not know where the others have gone. he searches the corners of the stone hearth for … More

—after Blake Butler The cake reminded me of the twins’ wet sludge food. I could never shovel it well … More

The Uninvited It was the scene outside that would be of great consequence, yet they crowded around the uninvited guest, … More

There’s a Man with a Hemingway Inside His chair is shrinking beneath him on the coffee shop patio. I should … More

1. Frankie switched her phone to silent and threw it on top of the travel duffel her father had given … More

It’s Good to Be Ashurnaspiral II The dunes part. Enter oasis. I emerge from the desert on my immaculate Bactrian, … More

The Unknowable A small German boy splashes in puddles of radioactive measured calmness. The puddles are not, in fact, radioactive … More

There She Is A woman in a pantsuit arrives first. She opens the lockbox and takes the key. She steps … More

Glacier —for Danny Rosen and Jack Mueller We are the sea and we rise with the break off slide-in of … More