By Michele Finn Johnson The ghost who inhabits my powder room is a thermodynamic anomaly—she generates an enormous quantity of heat versus radiating the chill commonly associated with the spirit…
By Emily Costa Remember how at school dances they would sell tiny glow sticks for a dollar and you’d all buy them and hide in the sea of bodies slow…
By Adam McOmber Here are the dogs, long-bodied and smooth, winding like serpents through the underbrush. They climb the trees and hang from branches. Some will sleep. But others stare.…
By Olivia Bradley When Saul walked into the farmhouse, his eyes were immediately drawn to the dry, tangled mass of roots that sat on the long, trestle table. One solitary,…
By Jack Maes What was it of me you saw What was it so cold like honey window rolled clear away from sill What bird or even tree is clipped,…
By Mandy Clark Ashley says my parents have put up flyers with my picture on them. Says they’ve stapled them up at Publix, my first job, where I bagged everything…
By Ashley Jeffalone For the party, the women have laid out chicken adobo warmed in casserole dishes. Longanisa, plump and red, stacked on platters. White rice in ceramic bowls. Pork…
By John Blair They’ve made this body farm in the woods near the college because we need at least to know that the world is all we are & the…
By Flower Conroy The Largest Island in the Largest Lake on the Largest Island in the Largest Lake on the Largest Island in the Largest Lake in the World Which…
By Katie Schmid A nightmare is a Body and your Father gone, & time is the road you travel to him. & in The Body clocks all stopped & in…
By Abigail Oswald We gather in the living room of my grandmother’s house and count ourselves. The last uncle is dead and now all that’s left is us: the women.…