DEAR BROTHER Excerpts: A.M. O’Malley Poetry

Dear Brother Three babies came between us. They were all sucked away or withered on the vine. The summer you … More

Fiction: “What Is Left” by Jen Michalski

You’re making good time. Keep this up, the splits will be amazing. There’s one guy ahead, a kid, really, who … More

Aerial shot. The sun rises over a city of semicircles. Traffic noises are punctuated by shrieking gulls. The camera pans … More

Or is it all but that rock(s)grey courtyard naked trees. & It is all but that this isFall & much … More

I am traveling through a country slowly catching on fire. Past towns simmering on dusty hillsides, bleached fields rattling in … More

The situation really started to seem desperate after the death of a fake plant. Its fabric elephant ears were found … More

the older i getthe harder it getsto believe in mydarkest heart ofhearts that chekhov’sgun was everloaded. take a look at … More

Yaphet Kotto Stardust doesn’t matter when you’re WillRobinson-ed in the cleft of the leading man’schin, this rift tantamount to a … More

The beautiful thing about fighting fascism, eighty-nine-year-old Joe West was saying, is that if you die, you die on the … More

—even still, the shoe polish sky’s chicken and beneath it we are racing towards abandoned storefronts. Pop promise from blister … More

The canyon the river ran through was bowl shaped & you could see from the water sometimes sheep on its … More

Guiding God At God’s request, I throw the ball. God brings the ball back wet. I palm the ball and … More

MY COUSIN AND I ONCE fished under an interstate where a bent leg of swamp lay exposed and easy to … More

Like porn, casual sex will eventually get boring. If the person you’re considering having sex with makes you feel dirty … More

In the land of outlawed love,you and I collect police composite sketchesof one another. We pull our mug shotsfrom the … More