Fiction
Locked Doors by Oscar Cuevas
Oscar Cuevas is a Brooklyn-based writer from Kansas. His work has appeared in BOMB, DIAGRAM, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. He won the Joyce Carol Oates Nonfiction Award and the Raymond Carver Memo-rial Award for Short Fiction. He’s been a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, and Bellingham … [Read more…]
Night Blooms: An Excerpt from a Novel-in-progress by Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise earned his PhD in English from New York University, where he specialized in twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature and culture. He is the author of three books in three different genres. His first book, Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande, 2006), explores the relationship between writing and emptiness, loss, blank space, and difficult memories. Its … [Read more…]
Peter Imsdahl
(Frog Walks Into a Bar) By Peter Imsdahl “Why do they jump?” Paul asked, fingering a twig he had picked up from the forest floor on their way to the clearing, a swath of forest cut clear of trees, seemingly just for them. There was a fallen log in the middle of it that they … [Read more…]
Jacqueline Doyle
YOU NEVER KNOW by Jacqueline Doyle “Thank God for small blessings,” the woman in the seat next to me repeats. “All I can say is thank God. You never know, do you? You just never know.” “Here’s your complimentary club soda, sir, and your peanuts. That will be seven dollars for the Jack Daniels.” I … [Read more…]