LUCHA LIBRE, a novella from ALL THE PROUD FATHERS by Dan Mancilla

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Two Poems by Zach Mueller

Broke Bottles, Gold Models There’s no sign saying choke saltwater drowning, but that’s how it happens—the absence of a sign. … More

*** Andrew Bourelle is the author of the novel Heavy Metal. His short stories have been published widely in literary magazines … More

GAME IN THE SAND They have finished securing Karl to the hood of the Chevy using the collected belts of … More

It doesn’t matter anymore because organ music has gone the way of, well, organ music. But I remember when I … More

(1) Looking in like a snail, my nose crawls against glass. How the view alters up close and the breath … More

When I first set out to write the Life, I was twenty-six years old, my subject at the time therefore … More

Makeshift Memorial Rain Riding Two Men and a Mattress *** Peter Witte is a writer and … More

Smoker’s Lounge Take the inscrutable diners and staff behind the plate glass of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.” Take the plate glass … More

Schoolteacher Elegy scanning the obituaries this morning I see my junior high English teacher the one who ignored me while … More

There’s This Thing and I don’t know what it is but I haul it all around because it’s attached to … More

I Begin with a lie. Life- stuck or stasis, miles or minds: unleash the lies. Bark them off. Begin un- … More