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MISSED OPPORTUNITIES BY JULIE DILLEMUTH
Feelings seeped around the edges of things: the way you thanked me for the loan of an eraser, the way I said, “you’re welcome,” the intimacy of borrowing. The time I asked for your calculator and you found it for me under stacks...
Read MoreHOUSEPLANT BY JULIE DILLEMUTH
I’m good at most things and keeping a plant alive, sustaining life, comes naturally, I thought. Plants can hang on for a long time, weeks; you don’t know that they suffer or how they suffer until one day it’s too late. It must...
Read MoreMOJAVE DESERT BY JULIE DILLEMUTH
Where stunted cacti punctuate fossilized ocean swells, tiny clinks ring out: granite and basalt shift under my footstep.
Read MorePARENT, TEACHER, PRINCIPAL MEETING BY MARK THALMAN
The elementary teacher complains to my principal, I’m not teaching enough grammar to her son, because his sentence structure is terrible. I tell her Brian has the best seat in the class. Front row, middle, four feet from where I...
Read MoreCASSANDRA’S KEEPER BY CHARLES E. MERKEL II
Even for Cassandra, it was hard not to stare. The diminutive man appeared to be the consummate outcast. His ghoulish face, scarred with burns and deep gashes, exuded misery. Perched on his flattened nose, a thick, bent pair of...
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WINTER SPLENDOR BY LAKSHMAN BULUSU
Lakshman Bulusu writes poetry and micro-poetry, and does visual art based in Princeton, NJ,...
Read MoreRECESSIONAL BY MEREDITH SUE WILLIS
The thing that tortured us was that we could see she was tortured. At first, we all played word games. She would watch television. She seemed especially to enjoy local commercials where the proprietor displays the product and...
Read MoreEACH HAIR BY JENNIFER GURNEY
each hair clinging to my life a gentle reminder
Read MoreAUTHENTIC LOVE BY JENNIFER GURNEY
authentic love selflessly giving
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