Chika Onyenezi The Time Traveler 2016 Whatever I did, my pain stuck around. I wanted to sleep, pretend everything was solvable by just closing my eyes, and hopefully when I woke, I would see things clearer. But I couldn’t sleep. I sat up, grabbed a glass of wine that I left on the […]
Category: Winter 2017 Fiction
“Cross” – JD Scott
JD Scott Cross It’s Tuesday. Into the gym I go—strength-building, weight-training, core-defining. It is not the type of body that generally gym-goes, but I go, and I go gorgeous. I go to a potluck after. I am swole and famished; I carb-fill. Pizza with olives on top. Cheese-coated breadsticks dipped in liquid garlic. […]
“Chop Shop” – Jessica Walker
Jessica Walker Chop Shop Nate had been brain dead thirty-three days when Roxy cut off the tip of her middle finger. The knife slipped from the flesh of the lime, tore off her nail and sliced the finger just short of the bone. She put the severed piece into a shot glass, stuck […]
“A Season For Burning” – Ramona Reeves
Ramona Reeves A Season for Burning Mobile, Alabama, 1969 I leap and leap trying to land in Daddy’s footsteps. Grandma Ames squeezes my left hand with her right and tugs me behind Daddy and Aunt Terri. “This is no time to fool around,” she says, so I walk serious-like and soon we are standing in […]
“What It Is to Preserve” – Amber Taliancich Allen
Amber Taliancich Allen What It Is to Preserve I once locked you in a closet. I never told you I was sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. The body is only thirty-three. The body is found and then the body is taken. I was never sure I wanted to […]
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“Passageways” – Sarah Andrew
Sarah Andrew Passageways This is the thing about living next door to a zoo: sometimes a peacock escapes into your yard and nibbles at your junipers, and you have to chase it around with a laundry basket until David the hunky zookeeper swoops in to retrieve it. You watch him tuck the bird […]
