After by Cyn Vargas
May 9, 2012
The tree house burnt down in 1983. From the day it was built by Henry Cornwell’s dad back when we…
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Cherries Jubilee by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe
May 9, 2012
Dinner, on an evening during Initsa Jubilee’s fourth year, began no differently from any other, except that Father Jubilee glared…
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A World of His Own by Sayandev Paul
May 9, 2012
A World of His Own The day drives on as a sullen dream, with waves that neither break nor live…
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Avoiding the Subject by Sheree L. Greer
February 13, 2012
Valentine’s Day, 2009. It’s Saturday night, and since my relationship fell apart six months prior, I’m alone. I sit at…
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82 Degrees by Megan Stielstra
February 13, 2012
It was twenty below, one of those horrible Chicago winter nights with the snow advisory, the blizzard advisory, three layers…
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Dear Steve/Dear Casey: A Film by Steve & C. James Bye
February 13, 2012
Does love really know no bounds?  Like, really really?  Like, even between Steve Tartaglione and C. James Bye? Find out. Watch…
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Dutch by Daniel Prazer
February 13, 2012
The night of our third date, Michelle and I drove to an all-night pharmacy to go Dutch on a morning-after…
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In the Category of Best Break Up… by Marcia Brenner
February 13, 2012
It was September, that saddest month, and his favorite time of year, and it was a Sunday, and we had…
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I Knew You Would Belong to Me by Chelsea Laine Wells
February 13, 2012
You will think of it again and again irresistibly, too often, the arc of Cain’s fall, his arms flung wide…
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Jack & the Pregnancy Pamphlet by Cyn Vargas
February 13, 2012
It wasn’t that Sebastian was ashamed of his wife, Grace, who was seven months pregnant with twins. It was just…
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Poetry by Russ Woods
February 13, 2012
A LOVE STORY SET IN A CREEPY NIGHTMARE FOREST I hope you don’tget eaten by thathorrible horrible deer thingbehind you.…
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Campaign Love Bites
February 13, 2012
Mary Beth Hoerner Ron Paul to Carol Paul Happy Valentine’s Day, Pumpkin! The First Amendment protects my right to talk…
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Farewell to the Piano by Jessie Ann Morrison
February 13, 2012
I began taking piano lessons when I was six years old.  My teacher, Ms. Lombardo, was a large, lumbering Italian…
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Gimme Shelter by Jotham Burrello
February 13, 2012
For once my math was spot-on. Which wasn’t so much of a surprise given I was just quoting back the…
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Personal Ad by Viki Gonia
February 13, 2012
I’m somewhat recently divorced. People keep bugging me to start dating. It’s annoying. Please stop telling me to start dating.…
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Instructions for Care and Feeding by Melanie Datz
February 13, 2012
You are curiously aware of your stomach, the way when you were in college, a hit of acid made you…
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The Affair: A Scene from The Infidelity Suite by Greg Baldino
February 13, 2012
The walk from the bus stop to Natalie and Dennis’ house was longer than Gerard had thought. The October wind…
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Poetry by John Stocks
February 13, 2012
With the Fishermen This morning I strolled to the harbour To watch the fishermen paint their boats, Or mend their…
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Matryoshka Doll by Dan Shapiro
February 13, 2012
I’m an average guy.  I live in the suburbs.  I’m lucky enough to have a well-paying job as a computer…
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Backs by Ira Brooker
February 13, 2012
“I like your stretch marks,” she says, crisscrossing the space between my shoulder blades with a chilly fingertip. The marks…
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Poetry by John Grey
February 13, 2012
Some People You Don’t Know Men on horses, in britches, staunch black caps atop their heads, shouting “Tallyho” and riding…
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Always Have by Patrick J. Salem
February 13, 2012
She walked in from the bathroom wearing only a t-shirt—her legs, smooth, shiny, and the color of raw cinnamon, rising…
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Agnus Dei by Mark Child
February 13, 2012
Oh, Lord heap mysteries upon upon upon us, but entwine entwine our work with laughter laughter low and all is…
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Poetry by Paul-John Ramos
February 13, 2012
Paul-John Ramos I see and hear it so rarely nowadays, I tend to forget. I am not that old, but…
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Pickled Babies by Eliza Fogel
February 13, 2012
As writers, we get to learn interesting and trivial facts like the marshmallows in our Lucky Charms are leftover circus…
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Violet Mints:  A Short Film By Meghan Lamb
February 10, 2012
Meghan Lamb’s Violet Mints Violet Mints from meghan lamb on Vimeo.
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SLEEP ANYWHERE by Eleanor Leonne Bennett
January 4, 2012
 
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Out Of Order
January 4, 2012
Ilana Shabanov Life is messy, however you approach it.  Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or on a Thorazine…
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Poetry by Kyle Hemming
January 4, 2012
beautiful girl if you were a beautifulgirlall glitter doll & sown up crotch& i had the moves of usheror the…
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Poetry by Nick Ravo
January 4, 2012
AN AMERICAN THANKSGIVING IN FIJI Texas tourist, sun drunk, kava numb, ‘Bula!’* weary, bored by barramundi, longing for a butterball,…
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