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)”

A Dream Is a Witch Your Heart Makes (Music for Shame) Ask not how you could ever make it right.Instead, … More

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

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Catoblepas Matt Kish is a self-taught artist and librarian. He was born … More

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

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

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

The First Engineer learned momentum from falling birds, howthey hit the water faster than the fish could dielearned that trees … More

These Ordinary Days Out of the brown bag I placethe red wine and sack of sugar I swing our eldest … More

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

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

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

What Has Become of Freedom? —Bob Hicok, “To Find the New World” The trouble with freedom is being freenot to … More

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

A Stranger Never Comes to Town My first brother was a cockatoo on the shoulder of a much older woman, … More