By Meghan Phillips, Fiction Editor I’ve started and restarted this editor’s note at least five times, but everything I write reads like an overly-gushy awards show speech or rejected copy…

By Reneé Bibby   Rousey is growing a beard. Her sister grew boobs. Rousey is growing a beard. She first noticed it two weeks into the school year, looking in the…

by Ellyn Lichvar Hunter Gatherer Little eggs fell from the nest. Wolf heart stole up and got them. Hunter hunting in the hard dark. I come dragging back with hard…

By Nick Gregorio When you’re on what I’m on everything’s electric. Little sparks of blue light from your fingertips, the palms of your hands, the ropes connecting your eyeballs to…

By Ash Goedker Brother Mad Brother the loose change I save in pickle jars. Brother as crawling the stairs nights exhausted. Brother running too fast for the wheels on the bus…

By Jacklyn Janeksela because i am not old enough, i have to wear turtlenecks under low-cut dresses to provoke man is a sin equal to adultery, affirms a church matron i…

By Rebekah Matthews We had been together for a half of a year, and we had started to run out of things to do together, when Micheline and I got really…

By Shasta Grant The greeting echoes, each employee with their matching blue polo shirts repeating it, as my girls and I make our way through the store. Michael always said…

by Catherine Chambers I lost a boy somewhere in the district under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass along Jay Street, between the York stop and the water. He followed me off…

By E. Kristin Anderson Battle a Man You begin in birds and beasts, bewitched as shown, very much alive. It spits unwary, this control. Your easier route. Bony, you’ll hit…