See the wild painted dogs of North Charleston. The weak ones die, but the drive of those pregnant mother hounds snuffling the ditch-line for hours—to see them is to see ourselves. Something wild, their bodies bearing the scars of night fights and bad love and still they get up after a hard rain.… more
Tag Archives: Nature
Torn
FLASH FICTION by Liz deBeerFeet apart, hands out like the Scale of Justice, you weigh who you were with who you are.… more
Pertusaria tejocotensis on the Cover of Nature
FLASH FICTION by Joanna TheissOnly she could make his thallus glisten like that, only she could make him enlarge even in drought.… more
Recalibrate
FICTION by Veronica KlashWhen the satellite was young, it thought only of the way bluegreen oceans slid against sandy brown shores and of how river arteries sliced through dense forest sheen like a lizard darting in haphazard lines though, of course, the satellite had never seen a lizard but it had seen life.… more
Rufous Treepie
FICTION by Sobia AliLook at a cat, what does it think of you? You would rather be a mouse than a man. And what can you do except feel sorry you are not a rat? Nature AS the manifestation of All sacred, Infinite Being. Whoa. It should show you. … more
Somewhere Without Trees
FICTION by Jordan FennellNo one broke Jesus’ legs, but someone made Him bleed. … more
BULLshot: Devin Murphy
FICTION by Pete Witte“…love of the natural world is at the heart of almost everything I write…”… more
Pollen
FICTION by John Oliver Hodges“Our glowing backyard bristles with life and color and promise. ‘Doesn’t the sight of it make you happy? Think how lucky we are to have all this in the world today… more
