Short Stories

Ernesto

By Charlie Morgan

"Another half-dozen miles and we arrive at the forked path that separates their two houses, of the six that make up Esperanza Hills—what I call Mama’s place." 

Ernesto-Charlie Morgan

A Hope Too Far

By Marlina Guzman

"Agnes was in the bedroom neatly folding Henry’s pressed shirts into the old leather suitcase. She was a bit nervous as she folded the last shirt into the case. She knew that this would be the last time she would see that shirt for quite a while."

A Hope Too Far-Marlina Guzman

Repose

By Melinda Wheatley

"Both curtained dividers were shirred, white, framed in metal, on wheels, too small (our feet showed from the bottom), and altogether inadequate. How we were reduced to this, nearly naked at a spinal screening during a school day, appalled me."

Repose-Melinda Wheatley 

Poetry

Two Poems

By Natalie Williams

"When I blood sworn, blood driven and blood stained;
Bore I no malice to world, rage lust or melancholic mood
Tender."

Lip Balm

Swift In Cinnamon

Two Poems

By Nancy Ames

a wave or a pulse."

Lithospheres

Cynical Baby Downtown

Bones

By Kendall Burke