When Mary finds him, she’s going to punish him. He will inadvertently disarm her probably, she knows, imagining a headfirst hug at the bottom of the slide, a tangled pile, wheezing and wild with laughter. The smiling cherub laughs, anger wilts.… more
Tag Archives: Death
ROUND TABLE: THE DEATH OF PRINCE
GENRE NON-BINARY by Christopher Wolford, Jared Yates Sexton, Jim Warner“There are writers and poets who called into question the tenants of life, but it’s popular artists, and popular acts like Prince that really did this in such a widespread way… more
Crackheads and Corn
GENRE NON-BINARY by Ryan Lutz“The explosion of drugs like meth and crack in Rural America has torn away at the psyche of each and every small town… more
Una Vida
FICTION by McKenzie Hightower“He called her Lucy, after my Ma, on account of her eyes being big, round, and dying… more
BULLshot: Michael Hemmingson
GENRE NON-BINARY by Pete Witte“When a person becomes a witness…of a violent crime, their lives are never the same”… more
BULLshot: Mike Campbell
GENRE NON-BINARY by Pete WitteThe author of “Half a Man to Bury” discusses memories and death and being remembered in death… more
Half a Man to Bury
FICTION by Mike Anderson Campbell“Uncle Bill got his legs bit off by a shark and died before his body was brought to shore. You might have seen it in the news… more
Three Fishermen
FICTION by Cameron Pierce“You’d be out fishing with Bob at the aqueduct and Bob would return after having been gone for a while, and he’d say, ‘Come here, I want to show you something… more
Their Next
FICTION by Michael Solender“Neither of them was Buddhist, but what they had realized in this valley so many years ago had never left, and they wished they never had either… more
Obituary for a Poet Heretic
FICTION by Marcus Speh“My father was a surgeon, a shaman and a greyhound. A runner in his youth, he thought little of exercise and called himself a cultured couch potato. As a doctor he loved each patient and included them in what he called prayers… more
