
I Will
His friends were also there to see what might go wrong, and Ned was fine with that.... Nicole Miyashiro writes fiction and poetry and is an editor for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book at Penn State University. She has published stories, poems, and reviews, including one Pushcart Prize nominee. She ... Read More

Spectators
This killer whale broke surface twelve feet out, arching its oily mass out from the water, and then it dove, aimed in our direction. One of us grabbed the shotgun. Our catch was good, but orcas could eat our salmon right through the nets, swarm us in packs of up ... Read More

Archaeology of the Present
My sisters and I lived among the skin-lamps of earth. The They walked by on rattlesnakes, alligators, eels, cows, trade-beads of ivory and ebony — all words for the bones of the living. Ordered to dance, we raised whichever limb we could risk. Our anonymous aphorisms greatly comforted the nation: ... Read More

Gravitas. Gravity. Gravitas.
I don't know why Shiranui tolerated the ringmaster pushing him around, making him do all those crazy publicity stunts. Shiranui was huge, even for a sumo wrestler, but maybe he was ashamed of being in the circus--loss of face or whatever--and so he didn't argue ... Read More

Fuchs, Felix, Anuran & Grenville
by Winona Wendth The offices of Fuchs, Felix, and Anuran are normally damp. The building’s maintenance crew installed a complex system of de-humidifiers, but they don’t work well in the muggy Virginia heat. Felix, Fuchs’ corner of the building suffers most; they are on the northeast side and do not ... Read More

From We Take Me Apart (A Novella)
In a different version it was not a pea but a cocoa bean/you came to us in the night/soaked in cold/trembling with fatigue... Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She curates Walking ... Read More