You’ve heard of Comic Con, but have you heard of the beauty that is Book Con? A once a year event, Book Con is an opportunity to meet dozens of up and coming authors as well as a few more renown ones. This past summer I lucky enough to attend the 2016 Book Con, an … Continue reading
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Leaving Men in the Midwest. Or, She Dreams She Slips — Lyn Lifshin
away like magic marker ink in the rain before it’s too late, before she stays in cities like Madison or Oshkosh—watch out in Minneapolis, in Green Bay Stoned on the lips of men with stranger verbs, with nouns like Dude and, Alike, dreaming from a bridge a poet could jump from, 16 arms around her, … Continue reading
Jellyfish — James Doyle
ordain the beach, little pontiffs in the rolling brightness of their robes. Sacred sand now. The blessed in their bikinis wallow for art among daubs of minor poison, see-through stinging like grace-notes against the sun’s glares, edgings in relief to bring out the Mediterranean day. No one goes in the water before or after the … Continue reading
The Luncheon — James Doyle
They set a table out on the Alps just for us. “This is a neutral country,” the waiter said, “you can have anything you want.” The mountains were very proud of their muscles, flexed them every chance they got. They would rub away any whiff from the rest of the world if it tried to … Continue reading
Things We Have Seen Before — Jeffrey N. Johnson
His face hidden by newsprint, smoke rising, slow methodical turning of the pages. Sitting at his feet, I was struck by the largeness of his shoes and my smallness before him. Headlines read of Nixon’s pardon and Patty Hearst’s arrest, but I could not read them until my grandfather was done with the paper. For … Continue reading
Aging — Ann Niedringhaus
I close my fingers, try to grasp water. The tighter I clench, the faster it runs away. The April 15, 2007, issue of The New York Times carried a headline: Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity? I have long read obituaries. They change as I grow older. Now I take inordinate comfort in those for the … Continue reading
Selected Letters — John Azark
“I’ve never written one,” my daughter laughs as I hand her the selected letters of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, a tome as heavy as her laptop. “It’s only Volume 1, they exchanged 25,000 pages in their lifetime! Imagine making that kind of effort even in love.” “Never,” she says, “too bad they couldn’t text,” a … Continue reading
Brother Swartzentruber’s Market and Novelty — William Jolliff
The gate is wide that leadeth to destruction…. In Elmer’s store the coolers run on kerosene, the black straw hats are apostles from China (dat’s a good buy!), and his County Seat Gazebos come assembled or as kits, delivered to your door by Elmer’s younger brother, Hershel, the wild one who left the Brethren when … Continue reading
2 Men Kiss/A Dollar & A Dream (or the odds of unequal & opposite attraction) — Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Unforeseen Trouble with Safety Goggles — Lauren Coe
In Biology class we stared at those swollen balloon cells. Pinched under glass all bled out, a dozen little fossils. Flat nuclei stretched like canvas, all the sad parts stuck on there labeled Red Blood Cell #3. They made me think of you. Remember when I cut my finger on the paring knife, my thumb … Continue reading
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