AVERAGES by Angela Palm At The River I have a new job and a car payment I didn’t ask for. I am sixteen. I am forcibly learning “the value of a dollar” and missing out on Friday night boy-girl trips to Pizza Hut with kids who wear letterman jackets. It is 1997. I have my … [Read more…]
KADDISH by Susan Lynn Solomon Pellets of snow stung my cheeks. I bent into the January wind and reached for my brother. He glanced at me from the corner of his eye. For a moment I thought he might brush my hand from his sleeve. “It was nice,” I said. Linda, his wife of three … [Read more…]
THE PARABLE OF THE MADMAN by Cassie Hottenstein Are you not the madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” There will be time, there will be time: We will now discuss in a little more detail the … [Read more…]
FOLLOW YOUR BLISS by Jessica Erica Hahn “I awoke in a sweat from the American Dream… I screamed into the wind my goodbye to the world” —Amebix, “Nobody’s Driving” ONE SUMMER EVENING BEHIND OAKLAND’S KMART and under … [Read more…]
SMELLS LIKE MOSS MAN by Christine M. Lasek Like the green slime rimming the crick behind the house where your best friend grew up. Like the brown and decay of November leaves choking sewer grates. Like the mosquito-thick drainage ditch in your parents’ subdivision in the dead of summer. * In 2005, it seemed like everyone … [Read more…]