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"A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is." - Flannery O’Connor

 

 

GO
By Jon Pineda


WHITE GUY
By Steven Barthelme

WAITING ON CANCER
By Christopher Battle


THERE WAS A MOMENT TO TURN BACK
By Kirsten Clodfelter

WALL PAINTING IN CHICAGO BAR:
"RICHARD J. DALEY, MAYOR"
By Richard Terrill

THINGS THAT APPEAR UGLY OR TROUBLING BUT UPON CLOSER INSPECTION ARE BEAUTIFUL
By Gretchen Legler


THE BLIND PROPHETS OF EASTER ISLAND
By Tessa Fontaine


TRANSUBSTANTIATE
By Rachel Yoder

CHOIR
By Jennifer Luebbers

 

TIRED
By Lance Larsen

SOBERING
By Tim Elhajj

 

CALL ME FRITZ
By Julie Marie Wade


THE MOTH
By Rebecca Fish Ewan

 

TEETH
By Dylan Nice

WHAT GRACE THERE IS
By Meera Lee Sethi

 

THE UPHOLSTERER'S WIFE
By Lily White


PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
By Stuart Overlin

 

LETTING THE DOG OUT
By Linsey Maughan

eNEW BOOK REVIEWS, CRAFT ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS

Interviews with authors Lee Martin and Thomas E. Kennedy, and a new craft essay on how the thesis statement functions in literary works in our Craft Section.

And on our Book Review page, Ira Sukrungruang reviews Jon Pineda's Sleep in Me, Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser reviews Sonya Huber's Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, M.M. Wittle reviews Curtis Smith’s Witness, and Debbie Hagan reviews Elyssa East’s Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town


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