THE WAY THE SKY WAS NOW, a 2013 fiction chapbook by Ryder Collins

Image: Eben A. Kling Winner of the 2013 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World … More

A Poem by Bridget Talone: “A Dream Is a Witch Your Heart Makes (Music for Shame)”

Ask not how you could ever make it right.Instead, lie down in your young shame—its dirty, slender hairdo blades. That … More

I’m taking up running, I tell my husband at breakfast. My husband smiles though his juice. Adam is always running … More

Matt Kish is a self-taught artist and librarian. He was born in 1969, in June, and lives in Ohio with … More

Came down from the hills to findthe thaw refrozen, ground even harderthan before, and this in late March: twist of … More

We were born hard. We own a pit bull. We don’t eat much. We’re quiet. If you saw us on … More

Mathematics IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Start with one body, and one sky. End with the sky in the body, and one sky. The … More

learned momentum from falling birds, howthey hit the water faster than the fish could dielearned that trees heaped together couldform … More

Out of the brown bag I placethe red wine and sack of sugar I swing our eldest daughterdespite my swollen … More

Someone’s feelings were hurt. BadBoo Boo. Oops, Boo Boo. Some-one’s feelings. O I felt your feelings,wet smooshy feelings.Big Bang Theory … More

Billy Sue Dolan was from Ruidoso, one town in a hundred New Mexico towns. Except Ruidoso was in Lincoln County, … More

My Cooter, Your Us upon being expelledfrom the uterus& them brigade my neighbor cuts offall our hair and rollstowel around … More

—Bob Hicok, “To Find the New World” The trouble with freedom is being freenot to think about freedom or desire … More

Self (American Continuum) I wake up: and my leg hurts my achilles specifically and I wonder if the body is … More

My first brother was a cockatoo on the shoulder of a much older woman, who called herself Madame La Cava, … More