After my first surgery, my disk slipped again within 24 hours, this time worse. I couldn’t lift myself off the toilet so I started peeing… Read More »Spine Sketchbook by Claire Lynch (2): Pots and Pans
Claire’s Spurting Disk (1 of 6) continue… Claire R Lynch is an artist and teacher based out of the Washington DC area. At the age… Read More »Spine Sketchbook: A Story in Illustration by Claire Lynch
That’s what the news warned. Everyone but the doomsday planners and the resolute old men evacuated long before it happened. From luxury boats or the… Read More »The World Is Ending in Tampa, Florida! by Paige Blackburn
1. Ingredients I try to find solace in the little things. Making bread, for example. The refuge of repetition as I knead the dough, fingers… Read More »The Truth Is — by Stephanie Buesinger
At the sculpture park we fail to connect. By connect, I mean recover. And so, we stack rocks. In silence we balance them without great… Read More »Here, from Outer Space–by Mackenzie Singh
“Everything falls apart eventually.” His words are a car on a hill, climbing gradually, curving at the top, racing down to dismal nothing. “What else is… Read More »Single Family Home– by Cathy Cruise
(the writer asserts that the empty space above represents all the stories of the known universe. He recommends that you stare at the blank white… Read More »Story in Blank Space #1–by Kris Broughton
Mel went down to the docks alone and hired a fishing boat, took it out all by herself. She brought with her a plentiful supply… Read More »Mel in Her Element–by Phoebe Brueckner
No one really noticed the newcomer. Mrs. Haggerty arrived during the doxology. She covered her cough with her palm, wishing her bunions would quiet down.… Read More »The Newcomer–by Kay Smith-Blum
Fellita is on a mission to kill the man who violated her granddaughter. He put his hand so far up Elena’s nalgas that he managed… Read More »Abuela’s Hammer–by Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley