After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
Read MoreWinner of the EXTINCTION Essay Contest, selected by Lacy M. Johnson
I’m five years old, barefoot in the backyard with my dad, picking tomatoes. They grow up the thin wire cage like they’re reaching for something. We
Sarah Ruth Bates interviews EXTINCTION contest judge Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings.
Charisma is an effigy that burns
bright behind bars,
fueled by shame.
The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a dystopia.
Announcing the winners of our 2020 Contests in Flash Prose, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction
Jon Riccio interviews Samuel Rafael Barber about his new book, Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located Across Five Landfills, That if Pieced Together Form a Message.
the sacrament parts
from a tongue
i told you
Bermuda grass is a weed, in my mind. Something unwanted, with a root system extending 35 feet down into the bowels of the wash that runs through my neighborhood. A friend told